The Two Things To Know Before Your City is Nuked By Terrorists

Townhall.com ^ | August 15, 2007 | Douglas MacKinnon

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

What’s to know? That it will happen and that political correctness is the cause.
Afterwards there will be a lot of panic, unending discussion, and blaming the wrong people. I can guarantee you that the people who should be deported will not be deported, but that instead they will wail and moan and get additional privileges!

[Hardastarboard]

Of the looting, of neighbor turning on neighbor to take what they don’t have for their own survival.

Not from Hardastarboard's house they won't.

[ovrtaxt]

Mod, while I don’t think the poster meant anything malicious, you may want to nuke that info. (punny I know...)

[AppyPappy]

Yeah, I’m sure they are going to nuke my little town. It’s one thing to have a “nuke”. It’s another to have one that works and it’s another to be able to light it off.

[verity]

There are some urban areas that need cleansing.

[OpusatFR]

The one place I’d be in an attack, is DC. Do you think our precious officials are taking any chances?

I have kids up there. They are safer there than where I live which is next door to the biggest naval base in the world.

[Diogenesis]

"Nothing to worry about, I will give these illegals Amnesty. It IS MY JOB!!!!."

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Duck and cover.

[Chuck54]

Yawn....

Is that you Senator Reid?

[OpusatFR]

LOL! I alwasy wondered why we had to duck and cover under our desks because the classroom had a bank of windows that would have sliced all of us anyway.

My only thought was that it gave you something to do so you didn’t have a chance to see it coming anyway.

[DB]

A chartered plane from overseas that never lands (at least in one piece) in the US is the most likely delivery system (I would guess). Since it never lands, it doesn’t need to worry about customs...

[rbg81]

I dunno about walking a nuke across the border, but I worry about it being driven over. Driven over in a Mexican truck—sealed in a container that is not inspected. Bypassing US customs without a second glance. And all for the price of bribbing a low level Mexican shipping clerk.

Think it can’t happen?

Unfortunately, I don’t think even a nuke going off would wake this country out of its stupor. After one nuke, you’d have the NYT (if NY got nukes, substitute the WAPOST of LATIMES) calling for immediate negotiations, urging restraint, and stressing the many benefits of diversity and free-trade. Maybe if they took out Washington DC, NY, Boston, and LA it would do the trick. Very sad, but I suspect true. The reality-free liberal mindset is so entrenched in this country that it would take the death of a massive number of them to spur action.

[Erik Latranyi]

Billions of dollars lost by gov’t agencies.

Please correct to Trillions.

.....and growing.

[Jack Hammer]

“When said attack comes, you and your family are on your own. Period. My friend stressed that ‘our government won’t be there to help us. It is broken beyond repair and incapable of assisting those most affected by the blast.’”

Somehow, by hook or by crook, and with everything else going on at the time, the government - federal, state, and local - will manage to find the personnel and the time to make house-to-house searches for lawfully-owned firearms. Bet the farm on it.

[reagan_fanatic]

If something happens, it will be with dirty bombs, not nukes.

Dirty bombs are much easier to design and construct. I'd be looking for coordinated attacks on both DC and New York with large-scale dirty bombs in moving trucks or on tractor trailers.

And remember - even though terrorists like high body counts, what they'll really be looking for is mass panic and large-scale economic damage. They know anytime the market so much as twitches, people get nervous. Coordinated dirty bomb attacks would hit the economy hard.

[bella1]

...Scaremongering by a clueless asshat....

Don’t be so sure. I had a close relative that worked on Capitol Hill until recently and he said the same thing. He believes this will happen so much, that he moved his family from the DC area to a small Midwestern town.

[4yearlurker]

The writer has watched too many old Twilight Zone episodes.

[Mumbles]

Since GWB issued a directive for the Goobermint to spread out to ameliorates a decapitating attack (most likely nuke and this isn't the first such article) I think we should list the positive affects:
1. The idiot pols elected by both parties will disappear.
2. The MSM as it stands will disappear and not be able to lament their political allies lost.
3. The welfare state ends.
4. The border is sealed.
5. Mt 9MM takes care of the rest.
I love it when a plan comes together. Feel free to add your own positives. Let’s look at the bright side of this.

[samtheman]

I’m not so sure this is empty scare-mongering, and even if it is, in the sense that the “source” is either made up or making things up, the idea of a nuke attack isn’t all that far-fetched.

One thing I’m sure of. Afterwards, there will be vigilante groups and secret societies.

I wouldn’t want to be a well-known leftist during the long and tragic aftermath. They will be hunted down like the treasonous vermin they are.

Just a prediction.

[chrisser]

I wasn’t sure what you meant, but after reading the last sentence, especially, I see what you mean.

I’ve reported myself and will now go sit in the corner ;)

Thank you for pointing out my oversight.