Posted on 02/25/2006 4:21:24 PM PST by SwordofTruth
Cowbell. How quaint. Did you dig that out of your bull-pucky pile?
I make it a point to hand out accolades, when they are well deserved. You deserved the BRAVO, hence you got one. :-)
Facts matter a VERY great deal. Sadly, far too many people don't appear to know any, nor do they want to know any. Please keep posting the facts; perhaps some here will finally take of their tinfoil blinders and ears plugs and look the facts squarely in the eye.
She need only check her FR mail.
If name calling is all you have, then you have NOTHING !
I'm sorry. Apologies. I'm old. I keep thinking we live in the America where I grew up, where nothing was impossible, like going to the moon using the equiv of a pocket calculator and slide rule for shipboard computations.
ROTFLOLPIMP......good one! :-)
You could try to put a dirty bomb in a container once the ship was underway but that would require the entire crew being in on it, it would require picking the dirty bomb up enroute without a marked loss of time, it would require the transfer to be unobserved (which is a whole other issue) and it would have one other major drawback. There is no way you could accomplish that at sea with a weapon sufficiently shielded to escape detection before it arrive in our port.
Bangor Naval Sub Base.
You may not be wearing "the uniform" anymore, but you're still serving, and I thank you. Keep on, keepin' on. :)
You know I would normally laugh at their antics, but trying to hide behind national security to pursue their agenda is very revealing of their personal intergrity and character.
Probably even less chance. DPW will be extraordinarily careful with their 7 billion dollar investment
Now answer the query: WHAT IS A SENSATIVE NATURAL RESOURCE?
Don't put words in my mouth. I'm still undecided on the port management issue. I AM NOT UNDECIDED ON THE SECURITY ISSUE.
Whether they are one in the same remains to be seen.
We're serving together.
The only "factoids" I need to know are the surrendering of ownership of U.S. ports to a Muslim nation which has been involved in third-party arms dealing, one that has been playing the "double-agent" game, and a country without much of a historical track record of trust with the U.S.
And to demonstrate my consistency, I also object to the COSCO, and Arabian ownership of ANY U.S. port.
Now if you want to consider that "hysteria," than I suggest you pour yourself a double with NO ice.
But, okay, what's a NATIONAL resource?
Security experts, members of Congress and government reports for years have warned that terrorists could use the world's global shipping system for attacks. They blame the vast size of the business - an estimated 9-million containers enter U.S. ports annually - and inadequate government spending on maritime security.
"It is only a matter of time before terrorists breach the superficial security measures in place to protect the ports, ships and the millions of containers that link global producers to consumers," wrote Stephen Flynn, a former Coast Guard commander and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in a recent article. Threats run the gamut from sinking a vessel in a busy shipping channel to taking over a cruise ship and holding passengers hostage. Experts focus particularly on one nightmare scenario: a weapon of mass destruction arriving inside a container.
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Thats the coast guard thats supposed to be securing our ports.
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