Posted on 07/19/2004 7:30:11 PM PDT by thinkahead
Utterly worthless.
They're a bunch of amateurs playing pretend terror analyst. Have demonstrated repeatedly they don't have the foggiest idea what they are talking about. They serve the "terror scare hobbyist" by providing them with the desired scare-a-day.
The immense pleasure people take in saying "I told you so" can easily twist over time to basically rooting for bad stuff you predict to happen.
The deterrent policy stated has always been our policy of nuclear deterrence...although some liberal may have changed it recently to "Allow oneself to be totally destroyed before shooting back." [I think they did]
Nothing new here, nothing shocking.
MAD.
This writer is clueless about our enemy. The deterrence target is clearly defined.
But what about Hollywood?
Call me, I want to be your driver and spotter.
Have all the renegage states with functioning reactors (such as North Korea) suddenly "gone legit"?
Is there anything to prevent them from providing these materials to terrorists?
I didn't think so.
Well the Constitution has already largely been discarded in favor of judicial fiat, illegal legislation, ever more invasive useless laws on thing like riding ATVs and smoking and completely ignoring real threats like Latino invasion and gangs.
As much as I love the Constitution our current broken system only calls it up as a sort of talisman, so military rule would not be a huge change in that regard.
yes thats great.
you should be quiet now, the grown-ups are talking. shhh...
Yup. And, like crockwork, the "usual suspects" are in-thread, playing their FUD games, preventing that not only has NONE of it been documented, but, insisting that it is categorically impossible.
If pressed, they will of course roll out a series of links that are off-topic, and prove nothing, and don't even support their lies -- but, they will keep promulgating their lies anyway -- like crockwork -- and, many will listen to the lies, and accept them, because a comforting lie will be more "listenable" to some folks than an uncomfortable truth.
And, if pressed really hard, they will call in their reinforcements, try to initiate a series of flamewars -- if necessary, settling for a series of single-sided "flame wars", so that the can also stir the shiite w/the mod squad, so that they can score a goal.
"Scoring a goal" in one of these threads means either getting it kicked to "the backroom", where no one will see the uncomfortable facts, or, getting the thread deleted in its entirety.
If they're really lucky, they'll get some longtime posters suspended too.
It really is amazing to watch 'em in action. It's almost as if a squad of seminar posters was in the hire of some outfit that had a vested interest in "steering opinion" or "forming consensus."
That there are such operations conducted on the Internet, and, that this forum, being about as high-profile as they come, would seem to be as likely a target (for such operations) as any, means nothing. I'm sure it's all just a big coincidence. A serial coincidence, that occurs like crockwork.
Oh I'm quite sure that there would be a great hue and cry by interests exterior to this nation...
That would be the whole point.
Something sorta like having nukes smuggled into your country I would imagine.
Interesting conjecture, except you forget a few details.
First, "maximum chaos" would happen if they did set them all off at once. Second, if they set them all off at once, they don't have to worry about stepped-up policing efforts discovering any of their other weapons before they can set them off.
And, even apart from those two factors, there's the biggie: coordinated multiple/simultaneous attacks are AlQ's trademarked MO. It's what they do.
Why's that? After all, Israel is "the little satan", and we on the other hand are "the great satan."
Do your homework!
You offer what?¿ to support that opinion?
And if they did, exactly what are we suppose to do?
Well, if it was real, and if one could, I'd get hell out of the major population centers..Just a wild guess though....
Now I wonder why that is? Could it be because the liberal rats have been calling into question the war on terror day in and day out saying the President lied about it all? Could the fact that W is called the terrorist, and in fact is accused in some circles of sending the planes into the buildings himself have something to do with this?
The left has blood on their hands already, and if this happens, they will be the aiders and abettors of it.
The night of the weak kneesThe night of the weak knees
Christopher Hitchens
Wednesday December 5, 2001
The GuardianFour weekends ago, I really did receive two Friday-night telephone calls from well-positioned Washingtonians. "Leave now," they told me. "There's a tactical nuke on the loose, and it's headed for DC." One of these callers was in a position to know, and the other was in a position where he was actually paid to know. Calls were being placed to an immediate circle of friends to which, in theory, I was flattered to belong. Those who were calling were also leaving - while not informing the rest of the citizens. Why, then, did I resolve to stay? It wasn't just British pluck, strong as that naturally is. I thought, first, that it was unlikely that al-Qaida, if it had the bomb, would have conducted a petty dress rehearsal with United Airlines. I thought, second, that the detonation of a "use it or lose it" freelance nuke could not be predicted for any given weekend. And I thought, third, that I would feel a colossal cretin if I fled and then came slithering back on Monday morning (especially if the nuclear holocaust was timed for Monday's rush hour after all). In the end, I did take the family on a pre-arranged trip to Gettysburg, leaving late and returning early.
Officially, nobody now remembers this night of the weak knees. It rated a brief and embarrassed mention in Hugh Sidey's Time column, and that was it. But I shall not forget how some of those in supposed authority decided that the end had come, and made it a point to keep it to themselves and their immediate friends, perhaps to stop the crowding of the roads. That's how it will be on the day of Armageddon, and that's why the citizen should always plan to outlive the state, rather than the other way round.
Oh come on. They seem pretty confident, or believe Israel is just a puppet of the United States....They don't want the puppet, they want the puppeteer.....911 kind of indicated that....
*LOL!*
You're a funny guy!
just a wild guess, eh. (Smart-alec me thinks;) Got every cow-trail out of Houston mapped. Like it would do any good. Can you imagine the chaos?
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