{"id":197604,"date":"2008-01-23T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/its-official-we-are-insane\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:06:00","slug":"its-official-we-are-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/its-official-we-are-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, We are Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of former defense officials from NATO Countries, including former JCS Chairman, and son of a Waffen SS member, John Shalikashvili, have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;jsessionid=A4TE3A1IKDRZBQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=\/news\/2008\/01\/22\/wnato122.xml\">recommended that NATO should reorganize to allow it to incorporate nuclear first strikes into it&#8217;s tactics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Calling for a major change to Nato&#8217;s approach to defending its members and their interests, the authors of the report, which has been handed to Nato and Pentagon chiefs, said the first-strike use of nuclear weapons was a &#8220;indispensable instrument&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but anyone who says, &#8220;The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; is simply, and deeply nuts.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this is not just laughed out of NATO and Pentagon HQ is an indication that something is truly broken about the way we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of former defense officials from NATO Countries, including former JCS Chairman, and son of a Waffen SS member, John Shalikashvili, have recommended that NATO should reorganize to allow it to incorporate nuclear first strikes into it&#8217;s tactics. Calling for a major change to Nato&#8217;s approach to defending its members and their interests, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1044,1042,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-nuclear-weapons","category-proliferation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}