[rightwing2]

Your idea of nuking the cities of our enemies, even our non-nuclear ones like Iraq, is demented at best. Such a concept is right there in line with Hitler's Holocaust. The only proper use of nuclear weapons is against the military forces of our enemies. That is why the use of tacnukes against an enemy army would be justified assuming we were fighting a just war, which we will not be if we re-invade Iraq this time without provocation. However, using tacnukes against an enemy force we could defeat without them would be a stupid move that would bring an inordinate amount of condemnation upon us and result in the use of such weapons against our own forces in this or a later conflict.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The only proper use of nuclear weapons is against the military forces of our enemies.

Sorry, that is a settled question. For more than 50 years the US has used the strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which calls for us to totally exterminate the population of our nuclear enemy. This is still our strategy.

In any case, if it was good enough for Truman, it is good enough for me!