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

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

[wideawake]

You should chisle that in stone, so you can choke on it when the time comes. The title you assigned the author belongs to you!

Whine on, whinger.

[Thermalseeker]

We’re balanced on a pinpoint.

I agree and as such I've been working all summer canning more than usual out of my garden. I'm about to put in a green house to extend my growing season, too. The world can go to hell in a handbasket, but at least we won't starve.....

[mad_as_he$$]

My concern about a significant terrorist act is dealing with the idiots that think the Government will help them and the subsequent panic when it doesn’t. The unprepared will turn into a mob - ala Superdome - in minutes.

[MrB]

3) Know that the moonbat political left and their lapdogs, the Democrats, did everything possible to allow it to happen.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

That and the split effing infinitives

Haven't seen anybody complain about split infinitives for decades!

[wideawake]

But what I know for fact is that the person I am referring to has far more knowledge than you or I or the general public will ever have, and is no way a coward having spent 25+ years in the military.

Blah, blah, blah.

Yet another "argument-ending" FR claim that is completely incapable of substantiation.

Luckily for America, 99% of DC residents (including the thousands who staff the Pentagon) are not candyasses like your relative.

[Philo1962]

Even one small nuke, set off in Manhattan or the Chicago Loop during the working day, could easily kill 100,000 people and cripple our economy for months. If it was set off in Washington, DC during the State of the Union address, our government would be decapitated. You know what they say: to survive in a hostile environment, you hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

[G Larry]

Do your communication skills allow you to express thoughts that don’t fit on a bumper sticker?

[Lou L]

wonder if getting a nuke up to the top of a skyscraper, difficult as that might be,

Depends whether or not you take the stairs, or the elevator.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He is saying: give up, it's hopeless, millions will die and there is nothing we can do.

IMHO he is saying that it is hopeless to prevent millions from dying, and tens of millions knocked out of economic productivity. But we should not give up, because there will be plenty to do after the destruction.

The dead millions will be our modern Alamo heroes, and we must prepare to avenge them, to destroy the enemies of civilization, and to suppress those who would enable these enemies.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Haven't seen anybody complain about split infinitives for decades!

Heh heh heh. I have a problem.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I’ll buy the inevitable nuclear/biological attack. But the panic and financial crash? Violence of neighbor-on-neighbor outside the affected area? No government services for months? Baloney.

The reason all of that will happen is not because of the initial attack, but because the success of the initial attack will make future attacks a certainty. Americans, deep in their "government will protect me from monsters" mindset, will simply abandon their urban civil service jobs when they realize that every city is vulnerable. This isn't the WWII generation. In modern American cities, it's every man for himself.

"Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle is a good blueprint for what might happen. It's about a comet hitting the Earth, but the human behavior described in the aftermath is exactly what we will see after a nuclear attack.

[LachlanMinnesota]

My concern is that I live in an area with one grocery store and not another for 15 miles. The next is five miles further on. Since the food supply system for my whole area is run by one wholesaler to that store, I assume that there will be no food to purchase if the economy is disrupted. That means people would starve where I live. It is corn and soybeans in the fields, but not many grow gardens for food to eat. It would take a while to grow those gardens, and it may not be summer.

[wideawake]

Do your communication skills allow you to express thoughts that don’t fit on a bumper sticker?

Translation: You are displeased that I lack "nuance."

[Dilbert56]

I read a column, perhaps on National Review, where one of their writers was crossing from Mexico back into the U.S. The Customs agent asked him when he had had his barium enema. There was a similar story about a man trying to board a NYC subway who was pulled out of line for the same reason.

If a nuke comes to America it will probably be in a ship, detonated in Boston, NYC, Baltimore, or L.A. harbors. I'd bet on NYC. Al Qaida has shown a fanatical attraction to airliners as a modus so they probably have target fixation on NYC. My daughter lives in Queens. Perhaps she'd survive if it were set off in the lower harbor.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

If it was set off in Washington, DC during the State of the Union address, our government would be decapitated.

[Evil grin] This ain't necessarily a bad thing, is it?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

So tell me about the difference between gerunds and gerundives?

[bella1]

“are not candyasses like your relative.”

Oh really. And just how many job situations have you been in where your “boss” instructed you to write goodbye letters to your loved ones before you left, because the chances of you coming back were not good? And no, it was not a military exercise.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Yet another "argument-ending" FR claim that is completely incapable of substantiation.

Oh, no. I have sixty relatives who know far more than you or I could ever know . . . they're like totally in the inner circle and all that, and they all say that the terrorists have recruited space aliens to come down from outer space and mate with Christian women and turn everyone Muslim. They take this so seriously they all moved to the Yukon Territories.

So there.

[wideawake]

IMHO he is saying that it is hopeless to prevent millions from dying, and tens of millions knocked out of economic productivity.

Yet for almost six years we have prevented further attacks and taken the battle to our enemies, rather than waiting like clods for the hammer to fall again.

We have a policy that works and, while it needs refinements, is paying dividends.

They were only able to murder 3,000 people - not millions - when they caught us napping. We are alert now and need to continue to be alert.

The situation is not hopeless at all.