For the first time, the United States is explicitly committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, even if they attacked the United States with biological or chemical weapons or launched a crippling cyberattack.There's a brain wave... I hear the jihadis are especially impressed with that "not fighting back" thing.
Those threats, Mr. Obama argued, could be deterred with “a series of graded options,” a combination of old and new conventional weapons.You mean like in Iraq?
I'm thinking Barry and I may have a different definition of the word "deterrence."
