When the United States captured In response to the anthrax scare, the fevered mind of Andrew Sullivan concluded:
"The terrorists have launched a biological weapon against the United States. They have therefore made biological warfare thinkable and thus repeatable. We once had a doctrine that such a Rubicon would be answered with a nuclear response. We backed down on that threat in the Gulf War but Saddam didn't dare use biological weapons then. Someone has dared to use them now. Our response must be as grave as this new threat."
Instead of nuking Baghdad, the Bush administration