Posted on 08/01/2005 3:55:15 AM PDT by Man50D
Let's have a division of labor: I'll worry about cancer and you worry about nukes. ;-)
So long as he doesn't use is.
*itching about President Bush's every move! They aren't interested in PROTECTING THIS COUNTRY. They never have been and never will be interested in National Security. They had rather spend the money, time and energy on SOCIAL CHANGES and force us to believe as they do.
Besides, EVERYTHING is the fault of the UNITED STATES, anyway, according to them. We caused the TERRORISTS to hate us. Before that the TERRORISTS were nothing more than freedom loving citizens. /sarcasm
You know "freedom fighters"!
I see World Nut Daily is still trying to keep Farah's BS alive. I guess they have to keep hyping it after Iran's EMP attack failed to materialize.
Last week, Jeff Jocoby wrote an article titled "Failures of Intelligence". In his opening paragraph, he wrote:
Three weeks before the London bombings of July 7, Britains Joint Terrorist Analysis Center advised policymakers that at present there is not a group with both the current intent and the capability to attack the UK. That reassuring message from the countrys top intelligence and law enforcement officials, The New York Times reported last week, prompted the British government to lower its terror alert. Less than a month later, 52 people were murdered and 700 wounded when three subway trains and a bus were blown up in the worst act of terrorism the United Kingdom has experienced since the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.
You haven't a clue as to what the terrorists may or may not be capable of, yet you lightly dismiss the warnings. Although I never was a assigned to a nuclear capable unit, I did receive the training in the so-called "back pack nukes". There's a lot of that training I've forgotten, but one thing I do remember is that if those thugs manage to get their hands on suitcase nukes or nuclear material, it will make 9/11 look tame.
The best option is treat the threat like Y2K. IOW, stay ready to keep from having to get ready.
Nukes have to happen sometime. This has been obvious all of my life, nearly 60 years. "Fat and Sassy" America is not forever.
Let's see ... the ninth is a weekday, a Tuesday, in fact, and also the 60th anniversary of Nagasaki.
" If Islamic terrorists somehow defied the odds and managed to detonate a nuke anywhere on U.S. soil, the whole of the Islamic world would soon be glowing green glass, because if the U.S. did NOT respond that way, we might as well run up the white flag and surrender."
What makes you think we would respond any differently, than we did to 9/11/2001 ?
We zeroed in to the best idea of where the attack originated. We did nothing whatsoever to Saudi Arabia, home country to the majority of the perps.
I have no idea of the real capability of our nuclear arsenal, in terms of maximum kill power, if directed at major population centers.
Let's assume one nuclear device was exploded in the US, killing 500,000. Let's further assume it is learned it came in via Mexico and that the perps were from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Morroco.
Would we retaliate against those four nations (Mexico included) for providing the birthplaces and transit route?
Hitting Holy sites is certain to widen the entire war, with little to no "military" target benefit.
Any place you bomb, you still need ground troops to occupy and control.
Blowing up petroleum related installations shuts down the world's economy, but even if we spared them, locals might well blow them up.
The alternative is a more localized "police" action like Afghanistan, which I recall has a population around 17 million. We don't control everything there.
And our present Army and Marines are too few, to handle much more on-the-ground occupation.
The best course of action looking forward from today, is mainly preventative.
Clamp down the borders drastically. Admit no muslims, period, for any reason.
Expell virtually all non-citizen muslims.
Begin Homeland de-islamification of every citizen and legal resident muslim, like we did in Germany after WWII. That means each individual is scrutinized.
Detain anybody in the slightest suspect; like Internment.
Warn every nation in the world to do likewise, under huge threats.
Begin draft, and go to full world war mobilization mode.
Fat and sassy will give way -- to angry as h*ll.
Even I'm afraid what such an attack will precipitate as our response. >>>>
What are you thinking will happen? Something along the lines of what Tancredo said?
although the threat should be taken seriously, most of the fallout from a nuclear device detonated in the US will be purely psychological. there will most likely not be enough radiation to kill too many people. they would take more people with a large conventional bomb and that is what they are looking to do.
well, good thing i am part of a law inforcement agency that is trained by the department of homeland security in these matters. wouldn't want to be full of conjecture...
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