Excellent post. I am also a graduate of the Hudson Trade School for Wayward Boys (1972). I also think we need to take on Iran and Syria. For the former, we should provide air strike, recon, armor, specops, and logistics support to the Persian revolutionaries. For Syria, I suggest that we encourage Assad's officer corps to overthrow him or face American air and armor. I think we are achieving economy of force in Iraq by letting the Iraqis clean up the islamofascists themselves. They are 10X more ruthless and thus more effective. I am actually less worried about nukes than bio. There are a lot of morons with poor personal hygiene and substandard labs trying to cook up deadlier pathogens. The only justice is that the bugs will kill them off first.
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LOL, 1985 E-2. Well, round 1 on bio has already happened. I'm glad I wasn't working in the postal room. I've got to disagree with you (respectfully). The defense against most biological agents are drugs ie Cipro ..... As for Chemical, it is filters and over pressure. The VP wasn't hiding in a cave because of Bio or Chem .....