Sarah Palin's comparing herself to Harry Truman this evening gave me pause.
Harry Truman became President when an aging President died in office. Harry Truman is the only person in the history of the world to use nuclear weapons.
If Palin is trying to prove that, should circumstances elevate her to the office of chief executive, she's prepared to make use of nuclear weapons, she must not realize that any such analogy with Truman is impossible.
Truman dropped the bomb when no other country on the planet could respond in kind. Destruction was unilateral. That has not been possible for more than fifty years.
Today, using atomic weapons means you are prepared to participate in the mutually assured destruction of all human civilization.
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