France said on Thursday it would be ready to use nuclear weapons against any state that carried out a terrorist attack against it, reaffirming the need for its nuclear deterrent.
Deflecting criticism of France’s costly nuclear arms programme, President Jacques Chirac said security came at a price and France must be able to hit back hard at a hostile state’s centres of power and its “capacity to act.”
So if Hezbollah attacks France: bye-bye Lebanon. Unless of course you notice that Hezbollah is not technically a state. In which case France would do what exactly to defend her people? Hasn't Chirac just announced to all of France that his government won't fulfill its most basic duty to them? Or that when he does, it will be to obliterate entire cities in nuclear holocaust?
