Posted on 03/12/2005 10:00:57 AM PST by Barbarian6
All the critics of the Bush Strategy have it wrong, the basic strategy is sound; where it needs to be strengthened is in the area of deterrence. The Bush strategy statements in Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction really fail to warn others, whether they are friend or foe, from proliferating technologies to second or third parties that may result in a catastrophic event on U.S. soil. Needless to say a nuclear detonation in a major U.S. city would have incalculable, far-ranging global reverberations beyond the direct physical destruction. Therefore, what is required is a new statement of U.S. proliferation deterrence that addresses what the U.S. response might entail in the event that a catastrophic WMD attack occurs on U.S. soil as a result of an asymmetric, terrorist strike....
That statement roughly formulated should say to effect: If you are a state sponsor of terror, with or without a WMD research base; or are an avowed enemy of the U.S., and you have a public policy that espouses the hope and bent for the destruction of the U.S.; you clandestinely proliferate (buy or sell) WMD technologies outside international agreements and inspection regimes, then you are subject to being immediately held strategically culpable should there be a catastrophic WMD event inside the U.S...."
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If you are a state sponsor of terror, with or without a WMD research base; or are an avowed enemy of the U.S., and you have a public policy that espouses the hope and bent for the destruction of the U.S.; you clandestinely proliferate (buy or sell) WMD technologies outside international agreements and inspection regimes, then you are subject to being immediately held strategically culpable should there be a catastrophic WMD event inside the U.S...."
Exactly. We should respond in kind immediately. Maybe then, these governments will clean the trash out of their backyards.
It's especially difficult since al Qaeda has apparently thought about our probable responses and accepted that. I remember one jihadi post, maybe from Zawahiri that said something like "we have considered the probable consequences to humanity and have found it acceptable."
We need to strongly imply that US policy is not the only thing that will become "tabula rasa" in the event of a WMD attack on the US or its forces abroad.
I'd promote this LTC.
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