Via Josh Marshall, Tom Tancredo skips the appetizers and goes straight for the crazy course:
Followers of radical Islam must be deterred from committing a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo said Tuesday morning, saying that as president he would take drastic measures to prevent such attacks.
“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” the GOP presidential candidate said.
Following the logic of current Republican national security discourse, can we expect to wait long before Tancredo’s move is countered by calls to attack Mecca pre-emptively?
On the other hand, maybe Tancredo’s got a point. Perhaps Gordon Brown should threaten that the next time some IRA splinter faction triggers a bomb in the UK, the Royal Air Force will drop a daisy-cutter on the Vatican.
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