Hadley has also advocated extending the role of nuclear weapons to include deterrence against all weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons, critics say.
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Critics say... SUPPORTERS say!
"Hadley has also advocated extending the role of nuclear weapons to include deterrence against all weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons"
Sounds good to me! The knee-jerk critics show once again how blind they are. How else can we have any deterrence at all against bio and chem WMDs??? Unless we're going to resume large programs for bio and chem weapons.... the self-important 'critics' wouldn't go for that, either, they just want us to be helpless.... and rely upon Kofi Annan's nuanced diplomacy to achieve world peace.
Then the critics will say you can't deter a homicidal-suicidal bunch of lunatics like Al Qaeda anyway. That's not the point -- we have to say to every Kim Jong ILL and the MULLAHs of Iran that if any terrorist group acquires ANY sort of assistance from them toward WMDs and uses such weapons against the US or its allies, "we will not distinguish between the terrorists and those who aid and abet them" in deciding upon our response. The nuclear deterrent must be on the table when dealing with all "Axis of Evil" members, old and new.