The Empire That Must Be Obeyed

What Gives the US the Right to Claim a Moral Monopoly Over the World?
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
CounterPunch

""The first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction." -- Five Western military leaders.

I read the statement three times trying to figure out the typo. Then it hit me, the West has now out-Owellled Orwell: The West must nuke other countries in order to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction! In Westernspeak, the West nuking other countries does not qualify as the use of weapons of mass destruction......"