Jesus Juice, 9/11, and an Emerging Pre-emptive Nuclear Doctrine at NATO

It was Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee who uttered the words, " I drink a different kind of Jesus Juice, " but likely not in reference to the now-proverbial " Kool Aid, " itself a latent semantic reference to the 1970s Helter Skelter fiasco.

Perhaps 9/11 is to Huck's Jesus Juice, the modern era's proverbial Kool Aid, with the emerging pre-emptive nuclear doctrine now being " floated " by NATO playing the part of protagonist. In other words, without the pre-emptive nuclear option, Iran will soon become a nuclear threat which, given 9/11, bears all of the characteristic resemblance of the kind that would intend to strike with similar atomic force. Hence, as the logic holds, it must be " pre-empted."

Moreover, we recall Dick Cheney's comment after 9/11 regarding the idea about " limited nuclear strikes " being plausible, presumably, again, to deter poltical violence, and that it was Dick Cheney who supported the disbandment of the once-hallowed ABM Treaty.

In this vein, 9/11 becomes, like the WOMDs that Curveball claimed to exist, an idea dispelled by Hans Blix, and, though less forcefully so, likewise by George Tenet and Valerie Plame, the latter once being a clandestine CIA operative before Cheney's office blew her cover; 9/11-as-Kool-Aid becomes pretext for the pre-emptive atomic deterrence of political violence that could only render ever rising tensions with Iran, which could only themselves become greater pretext for the plausibility of first strike nuclear deterrence.

The kind of Jesus Juice most of us who, like Mike, prefer to drink, is probably the kind that sees in an EU constitution, still yet to be ratified, the possibility for a one-state option which will render power to any EU state to block NATO outright, but with particular regard to the use of atomic force, for any reason, particularly preemptively.

But the biggest problem might be Russia, which NATO may be - in light of EU stability concerns and what the republics offer in carrots in the form of petroleum, which is an answer to the kind of EU involvement in the Middle East - the War In Iraq - that may be seen as the actual culprit of the political violence directed at Beslan, Madrid, London and Belgian embassies - inclined to support a Russia whose military may want to pull out of the INF Treaty, again, yet another Cold War staple of counterproliferation.

Is Russia seeking to intimidate NATO into the more forceful, preemptively atomic option that the vast majority of EU states would be unlikely to support, while offering the republics up as carrots ? One can never be sure, but so too did Litvenenko drink a different kind of Jesus Juice.

Or maybe it was the radioactive Kool Aid.