Saving the World

The Guardian reports that Nato has been told that a pre-emptive nuclear strike must remain an option, to try to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Indeed five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists say that:

"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."

It's hard to believe that anyone could say anything so daft. But then as I reported in a Comment is Free blog, Tony Benn told the Media Workers against the War conference in November that according to western mainstream assumptions "weapons of mass destruction are things other countries have."