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Indiana has composed not just an autopsy of Los Angeles trial spectacles but also a satire-before-the-fact of Dunne's novel--possibly the first such pre-emptive strike in literary history.
It was far from blind; and there is good reason to credit President Clinton's claim that this was a pre-emptive assault on operational terrorist bases preparing to carry out further attacks on American targets which would have cost, as they did in Nairobi, the lives of hundreds of non-Americans as well."
The NYT reports that in the hours just prior to conducting the tests, Pakistan summoned India's diplomatic envoy and accused India of planning a pre-emptive military strike on Pakistan's atomic testing center.
Instead, the U.S. should use its pinpoint conventional missiles to make both pre-emptive and retaliatory strikes against nuclear terrorists and rogue states.
The only solution is a pre-emptive strike.