[Mixer]

I am glad that the government has decided to not disclose info. This has hurt us in our past. I just get as nervous and crazy as the next guys waiting to hear what will happen next.

If disclosing information saves even one life then to me it was worth not telling. The government gets accused of lying when it doesnt tell the truth so i think they decid to tell hald the story and that puts them on trial even further. They are in a lose/lose situation.

[Diddle E. Squat]

OK, lets have a little rational mulling over options. Say there is a radioactive attack, rendering a major portion of a US city uninhabitable, major economic disruption. What is the best response? Knee-jerk reaction is nuke the b*******. But the strategic gain of a nuke in Afghanistan is rather small. And nuking other countries(other than possibly Iraq) is probably too great an escalation, would need some investigation to justify before launching, may be difficult to directly prove Iran, Saudi, Syrian, Chinese involvement(you can't risk action viewed as so overblown that it might risk Russian and Chinese retaliation).

No, I think the retaliation should be rather stealthy, implied but not proven, much like the support of the terrorists by certain nation-states. WMD, but infectious. Arises in and sweeps through Mideast. If spillover into Russia and China, well thats a shame, seeing as spillover from their corruption, drug running, and organized crime enabled the terrorists to strike us. Collateral damage rather than direct makes it difficult for them to retaliate directly against us. Uses the same WMD that many of these ME countries have been developing, thus killed by their own types of weapons. Oh, and we would have to quarantine our borders, but by doing so in the martial law period that would result from major disruptive nuke hits, you could have plausible deniability of doing so in self-defense, rather than anticipating the bioattack on the ME. Remember Russia's ban on the travel of its govt officials to the US still in effect?

So a stealth attack that everyone knows was our response, yet no one could prove was our response. That's how you attack a threat that has no home to defend.