Yearly Archives: 2003

Here's a trial balloon that deserves not only to be shot down, but shredded, dispersed, and probably exorcized:Pentagon wants 'mini-nukes' to fight terrorists. Imagine what happens when other nations build these and then they fall into the wrong hands. (Due to the nature of their likely uses, tactical weapons tend to be more dispersed and less well guarded than strategic ones.)

And, oh yes, might there be a moral issue about a national policy of envisioning and thus encouraging (in the sense of failing to maintain our stand against) the casual use of nukes? Or maybe a strategic cost to those of us living in a target-rich environment about undermining the international norm against the use of nuclear weaponry? Hello?

Administration Faces Supoenas From 9/11 Panel.

Key quotes from Co-Chair Max Cleland,

“It's obvious that the White House wants to run out the clock here,” he said in an interview in Washington. “It's Halloween, and we're still in negotiations with some assistant White House counsel about getting these documents — it's disgusting.”

“As each day goes by, we learn that this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted.”