American nuclear forces on global alert is what CBS dished out as this author awoke on that chilly October morning in 1973 while attending Madison College in Virginia.
This was Nixons response to Brezhnevs announcing the potential deployment of Soviet airborne troops into the midst of the Yom Kippur War in an effort to stop Israels advance toward Cairo.
It was both amazing and amusing watching the Soviets quickly back tract in the face of stern American resolve.
To put things in a more contemporary setting is to beg the question — should the United States consider the use of nuclear weapons to deter potential attacks by Muslim extremists.
This politically incorrect notion must be given weight in light of the worldwide jihad that has been declared against the U.S. by Muslim terrorists and the nation-states that support and hide them. It is nothing short of the 4th Crusade and it is taking on religious overtones in the form of a global holy war financed by these terrorist nations.
It is fair to say that national dogma promulgated by an Islamic theocracy is more rigid and less flexible than what is accepted within a pluralist...