The Obama administration waited until U.S. president Obama left the country to respond to the public uproar regarding Obama’s controversial new “no nukes” policy.
This is typically what we have come to respect from the administration that seems to be winging it politically.
Obama’s policy was clear: if we’re attacked by another country using chemical or biological weapons, we would not retaliate with nukes.
But according to Hot Air, Hillary Clinton explains, “If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.”
Obama’s Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (the one who Obama said he would listen to over Palin) now says Obama’s new policy leaves a lot of wriggle room to pull those nukes out of storage:
“We were concerned about the biological weapons,” Gates said, “and that’s why the president was very clear … if we see states developing biological weapons that we begin to think endanger us or create serious concerns, that he reserves the right to revise this policy.”
Okayyyyy… but didn’t Obama’s policy say we would not be developing any new nukes? So once the old nukes are used up, then what?
According to the NY Times, we might respond with nuclear weapons to a biological attack if and only if the attack came from a country with a big bio stockpile.
What that means is, after a biological strike — while millions of Americans are dying a slow, painful death — Obama will be safe in a shelter miles below the earth saying, “Does anyone here know if the country that attacked us had a big stockpile of biological weapons or a small one?”
