Beyond Loophole: Obama’s Nuke Policy ‘Change’
Administration Very Clear in Threatening to Nuke Iran
Last night it was reported that the Obama Administration was about to unveil the nation’s new nuclear weapons doctrine, ostensibly backing off the more bellicose claims of the Bush Administration while slipping in a “loophole” regarding nuclear first strikes clearly aimed at Iran.
But today when the administration revealed the new policy, it quickly became quite clear that far from being a loophole slipped under the radar, the administration is being very explicit in its threats to nuke Iran.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the policy was meant to send a strong message to Iran and North Korea that “all options are on the table in terms of how we deal with you.”
Gates said Iran and North Korea were being deliberately “carved out” of the policy, as were “non-state actors.” The US has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran, and it has often been speculated that the attack would include the use of tactical nuclear weapons against underground sites.
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Heathcliff_Maw
April 7th, 2010 at 4:13 am
Barack Bush.
Just as Clinton paved the road that Bush drove down to attack Iraq, Bush set the stage for Obama to attack Iraq. I'm hoping that Obama will wise up and not launch that attack nor give Israel permission to do the same, but Obama has not impressed me with his wisdom yet.
Guets
April 7th, 2010 at 4:14 am
As Forest Gump said once.., stupid is as stupid dose…
Reza Shirazi
April 7th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Barak came with peace, change and relation with Iran but now thearting Iran with Nuke
Peaceful_Idiot
April 7th, 2010 at 4:47 am
It's good that they are "carving out" non-state actors, since the state is in crisis trying to figure out how to deal with them. That way they have an excuse to nuke whomever they want, for harboring terrorists of some shit. Oh, and we should probably torture them and their family too, just to be sure, and for fun. That's how we roll dog.
Those pesky non-state actors, they will be the death of the Empire. 4GW style.
E. A. Costa
April 7th, 2010 at 4:56 am
This is a concealed doubledind–in Bateson's and Laing's definition–very much along the lines of the doubelbinds Bush the younger used against Iraq.
Will it work?
No.
Why not?
There are many reasons but close analysis would take pages.
One major reason–the Iranians are well aware of the tactic, and have learned to turn it back upon itself. Also they have Hussein as an example. Hussein's fatal mistake was to presume US foreign policy was both rational and in the best interests of the US. The Iranians are not that naive.
Bush Lite–as was Bush heavy–is in way over his head.
E. A. Costa
April 7th, 2010 at 5:01 am
corr: "doublebind"
Wolfgang
April 7th, 2010 at 7:22 am
Twenty years of my life I have been fighting Communism in East Germany and was sentenced to 3.5 years of prison in East Germany. If I would have known at that time what criminal Mafia would rule the world after the Berlin Wall came down, I would have supported Communism.
The new axes of evil is USA and Israel with the help of Britains poodle.
Wolfgang
protobone
April 7th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Lemme see, isn't Iran a signatory to the NonProliferation Treaty? Isn't Iran in FULL compliance with that NPT? Hmmm, seems like Iran sure as hell is. There has been no "credible" intel as to a converse of that. The Obama posturing his "best" posturing for the entire world to see he's gots a set of 'balls'. The Obama just looks stupid when he 'channels' George Bush. Maybe the Obama is gonna strap on a 'flight suit' with accompanying codpiece.
Oldtimer
April 7th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Obama does everything his Israeli puppetmasters (Rahm Emanuel, etal) tell him to.
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Wolfgang
April 7th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I'm not sure if its "Astalgia", but the "status quo" made the US to behave better. I was sentenced for a public (7 minutes) demonstration on the major place in Dresden, the Altmarkt.
It's not so that there were no athrocities then, but, I think those people in power at the staus quo were at least ashamed of the killings. Now, they are almost bragging about the power which enables them to do almost anything and to anybody without even to fear that it becomes public!
And that arrogance combined with the mad behavior is just unbearable.
Wolfgang
E. A. Costa
April 7th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
"The United States is urging China to explain its nuclear intentions more clearly." (AP)
Haha. Perhaps Obama and Gates should attend the Nuclear Disarmament conclave in Iran.
They may learn a thing or two about what''s what.
It is a "New World Order" all right, but not the one the US and some of the western European elite were envisaging.
MoT
April 7th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
…"Mostly for fun. That's how we roll dog."… Priceless! Between tears of grief and the odd spot of mirth lay gems like this.
MoT
April 7th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Half of my mothers relatives were in the "Ost zone" while the others in the West. I've seen it with my own eyes, Dresden lately, and that was a different time and place compared to the madness of the present.
Dr Fanon
April 7th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Ostalgia? Me, too, brother.
I wish they'd put the wall back.
There was once stability in the world and a somewhat peace.
Now the imperialistic riff-raff exclusively hold the wheel.
Barack Obama is proving to be the President for Israel in the United States.
The GDR was a frog of a nation, but it was at least OUR frog.
Robert
April 7th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
I voted for Obama,not next time,he is an old Baby Bush in a new bottle,he is becoming a warmonger
marko
April 8th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Wolfgang, truly you were shafted, as were the rest of the East Germans. Please remember that a criminal mafia ran the communist states as well, so it really was a wash. Would it have been better to wait for the whole thing to collapse with the CCCP? Would the DDR/BRD have joined into one happy free state? We'll never know, and we have Kohl and Hoeneker (sorry about the spelling) to thank for that ignorance. It will be interesting to see how history views that period in a few more decades.