NUTS ON NUKES: HILLARY’S MAD NEW POLICY

Published in the New York Post on April 21, 2008.

In last week’s Philadelphia debate, Hillary Clinton said she would commit the United States to a retaliatory attack against Iran, presumably with nuclear weapons, if it dropped the bomb on Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates or Kuwait.

Asked if “it should be US policy now to treat an Iranian attack on Israel as if it were an attack against the United States,” Clinton astonishingly responded that she’d use American nukes not just to defend Israel, our traditional strategic ally, but also other neighboring states such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait from an Iranian nuclear attack.

Barack Obama’s far more sensible answer was simply to commit to definitively and aggressively extend our deterrent protection to Israel - period.

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