for hypothesis:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008114/posts?page=1297#1297 reposting my comment here:
To: Conservative4Ever
I dunno... I'm just thinking of the report on FNC the other weekend about transportation choke points on the high seas.
If you lose the rail and road corridors into the basin, it only leaves the harbor. If you toast the harbor somehow and then toast the two road systems at the 14-5 and at cajon pass, there isn't much of a way to evac the basin in the event of WMD hit in the harbor.
You'd basically toast the 5 mile radius around the port of LA, take out the oil refining from Alaska, incinerate the know how to rebuild (that lives in the area of Carson, Long Beach, northern OC, Palos Verdes, Torrance), and then cause more chaos by limiting the exit of civies through the two passes.
If the enemy coordinated attack at San Onofre to the event at the Harbor, you'd lose the I-5 south exit. Notice that the Camp Pendleton fire, if it burns south west, cuts the I-5 corridor.
1,297 posted on 10/26/2003 1:23 AM PDT by bonesmccoy (Defeat the terrorists... Vaccinate!)