Bedfellows to Oblivion

“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.”

Five Western military leaders.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! Western rationality at its calculated finest:

We must stop others from having/using what we have - the ultimate means to literally holocaust massive numbers of people, totally destroy total environments and spread radiation for thousands of kilometers causing untold mutations and disease and eventual death.

How?

By using our weapons of mass destruction to literally holocaust massive numbers of people, totally destroy their total environment and spread radiation for thousands of kilometers causing untold mutations and disease and eventual death.

Nuclear annihilation to prevent nuclear annihilation. The use of weapons of mass destruction to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.

This passes for western reason? Western thought so bankrupt, so devoid of content that all it can muster up is massive killing to prevent the imagined future possibility of massive killing? But if this is what passes for western reason mustn’t that mean that western reason has past? I think it does. We’ve past ourselves by. We’re done with. We’ve nothing left to offer but rationales for the ultimate in destruction.

Western reason meets Judeo-Christian Zionism (because you just know where this is gonna play itself out right?): Bedfellows to Oblivion.

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