Reply #4: How about retaliation? [View All]

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What if the baddies got their hands on some of A.Q. Kahn's little toys, nuked Kabul and we knew where the rest of their nukes were? What if the only way to get at them in their protected sites was with a nuke?

If you don't think the reactionaries are going to posit such things, think again.

It was his sloppy speaking about possibly violating the sovereignty of a nation that got him asked this question in the first place, and now his sloppy speaking has him back in clarification gulch again.

Sloppiness and confusion is one thing. Habitual sloppiness and confusion is something different, and being that way about nuclear devices is chilling.

Giving the right wingers a way of skewing his statements on everything under the sun won't help us one little bit.

Scratch that.

Oh, let's scratch a coupla those, too.

Hell, let's just throw away the hydrocortisone and scratch everything.

It's not all just a bunch of big meanies picking on him, he's constantly saying provocative and unclear things, then having successive versions of clarification.