[Alberta's Child]

The attackers, whomever they may be and whatever their motives, went after the heart of progressive Paris. They did not attack the more touristy Champs-Elysees or Notre Dame, or the more bourgeois and conservative left bank, where most of the government ministries are located.

They attacked targets that symbolize what France is all about. An effective attack on the U.S. requires a strike on the Pentagon and on two massive office buildings where tens of thousands of people go to work every day. An effective attack on France involves entertainment venues. That says everything you need to know about the two countries.

[lentulusgracchus]

Keep in mind that OBL opined, speculatively, that 10 or 11 closely-timed nuclear strikes in American cities would bring America to her knees ... facing Mecca. Right or wrong, that's what he thought, and approaches to the infamous Dr. Khan in Pakistan were undertaken.

From what we know now about OBL's safe house in Abbottabad and his increasingly exposed relationship with the Pak ISI, it isn't hard to guess what the source of Al Q'aeda's prospective nuclear shipping containers would have been.

And never forget that it was the Chinese "dropped knife" strategy that started all this ... arming all America's worst enemies with nuclear weapons. We haven't yet informed the Chinese what their price will be, of a nuclear attack on the United States, and so this policy will continue to go forward until we do.