From: Monte Davis 

John Cuccia  wrote:

>Do they really?  Things like the Bush Administration's plan to further
>development of battlefield nukes makes me skeptical.

All I can say is that in looking at the first half of the 20th century, I
can easily imagine a history in which NBC weapons were used freely in the
second half, and would be considered routine today -- and I like this one
better. I can imagine one in which the Nazi treatment of Soviet POWs and of
civilians under occupation became the standard, rather than a horrible
example -- and I like this one better.

You know the old saying: "the best is the enemy of the good." One
tempation for -- what shall I call us? "liberals?" :-) -- is to
mistake the "not yet nearly good enough" for a thin veneer over
"as bad as it gets."

Wtach Thomas Schelling's Nobel lecture on the incomplete yet oh-so-valuable
"taboo" on nuclear weapons. It hasn't made them go away
-- nothing will -- but it has had a lot to do with there being fewer
of them today, on less of a hair trigger, than there were 30 years ago.

http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/2005/schelling-lecture.html

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5