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from the it's-"talk-softly-and-CARRY-a-big-stick" dept.
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."
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:33PM
Actually a "rage type" zombie plague? Really not that implausible. Just consider the fact that nearly 1 in 4 people around you every day carry Toxoplasmosis [wikipedia.org], a disease shown to alter the brains of at least one mammal it infects [wikipedia.org] and its really not hard to imagine a mutation occurring that causes altered behavior in humans to help it spread in the same way it alters the behavior of mice. If it were to mutate and this mutation affects those already infected? You are talking about nearly half of the world's population turning, that would give you the Hollywood style zombie apocalypse.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.