Sure, why not?

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

I've been noticing for awhile that, in their effort to associate Iraq with 9/11, the righties have succeeded, in that it's become difficult for me to remember 9/11 without associating it with that travesty.

They've sort of hijacked my emotions about it to where the thought of our foreign policy disasters have overcome my feelings of support for New York City and the victims. That was their goal, and it was working.

Today the Pentagon took it the rest of the way. Happy 9/11, everybody.

The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

[Hat tip: Pvt. Bidness from Jesus' General's comments]