Yes..."measured response" was the buzz word of the Johnson regime. It literally got thousands killed and many more maimed and injured.
I can only hope that LBJ is roasting on a spit and that Mac will be joining him soon. (I think the bastard's still alive)
If you recall, it was NORAD's strategem to use "incremental" responses to a Soviet nuclear attack that drove the French out from under the thumbs of the organization. There is a little-known patriotic streak in the French -- they were only satisfied by a strategy of complete and total destruction of the freedom-threatening enemy.
I was thinking how ironic it was to see this old man quaking in his boots at the table with Charlie Rose, telling us all what a threat nuclear missiles continue to be.
He's the one who set back our NMD/ABM efforts by two generations. And there are big brains in the Kerry administration who continue to believe the same illogical theories.