Roberts Repeats his Prediction

Paul Craig Roberts has long suggested that the administration, in order to spread the war without a draft, might decide to resort to using nuclear weapons:

While we are bogged down, what happens if something hits the fan in another part of the world?
Will we be forced to resort to nuclear weapons?

-"Neocons Admit They’ve Blown It – Is The Draft Next?" August 28, 2003

Once we have attacked other sovereign Islamic countries, we will have to bring back the draft in order to raise the necessary armies or resort to nuclear weapons.

-"Neo-Jacobins Push For World War IV" Sept. 20, 2003

It is not American "virtue" but nuclear fallout that neocons intend to spread in the Middle East.

-"A Holocaust in the Making" Oct. 27, 2003

Unless they resort to nuclear genocide against the Muslim world, neither candidate has any hope of killing as many terrorists as their policy would create.

-"Liberty is at Stake" Nov. 2, 2004

And now he says:

Mired in interminable conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is moving toward initiating two more wars, one with Iran and one with North Korea. With no US troops available, the Bush administration is revamping US war doctrine to allow for "preventative nuclear attack." In short, the Bush administration is planning to make the US the first country in history to initiate war with nuclear weapons.
-" Bush Is Cooking Up Two More Wars" Oct. 1, 2005

Whether or not he is correct in this, it sems to me that it might behoove us to be a little circumspect about Bush's foreign policy; at the very least we need to make certain that he is not actively spoiling for a fight with Iran (or Syria). All things considered, I am not very worried that we will deliberately get into a conflict with North Korea, but I do think that we ought to be cautious about the administration's plans for the countries bordering Iraq.

In any case, read Mr. Robert's columns, they are always quite thought-provoking.

That is all.