Oder Aderet reports at Haaretz that the United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attack according to Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as reported in Der Spiegel. "The papers were written," Steiner said when asked whether the U.S. had considered using nuclear weapons in response to the attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. "They had really played through all possibilities." Steiner added that Schröder feared that the US, which was in a state of shock following the attacks, would overreact. "After Sept. 11, the entire administration positively dug in. We no longer had access to Rice, much less to the president. It wasn't just our experience, but also that of the French and British as well. Of course that made us enormously worried."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:46AM
And before that it was the facists, then the socialists, then the facists again, then the anarchists, the confederates, the savages, and then those loyal to the crown.
There has always been boogeyman.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:26PM
Quite right too! That is the real reason for the rapid development of face-tracking technology, never again will we need to worry about those evil facists and their belief that everyone is entitled to their own unique face! Now we can quickly locate them, follow their movements and take them and their personalised visages out of circulation.