Posted on 08/15/2007 4:41:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
1.) Tragically, horrifyingly, but quite predictably, it’s going to happen. The only question being which American city or cities?
In a recent conversation with a former high level intelligence operative of our government, I raised the possibility of terrorists successfully detonating a nuclear weapon within the United States. His response was sobering in its hopelessness.
First, he stressed how grateful he was that he did not work in Washington, DC, and that his family lived far enough out to survive the coming nuclear blast. When I pressed him as to why he was so sure that Islamic terrorists – with or without the help of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez – would eventually hit DC or another American city with a nuclear weapon, his anger boiled out.
He pointed the finger squarely at our politicians and our politically correct, left-leaning media, who, in his opinion, have “sealed our fate.” He spoke of politicians from both sides of the aisle who consider border security nothing more than a cheap tool to be used for their reelection and enrichment. He despaired about a media that not only gleefully leaks our nation’s most trusted secrets for partisan gain, but then willingly acts as a propaganda tool for the very terrorists intent on our total destruction.
He warned of the hundreds of “loose nukes” floating around our planet. He patiently explained that the former Soviet Union (no matter what they or our government claim), can’t account for a number of their nuclear warheads. That North Korea may well have a few they are willing to sell to terrorists to prop up their totalitarian regime. That Pakistan – already a nuclear power – may soon fall victim to the Islamic extremists trying to overthrow that government. Of an Iran further ahead in their development of nuclear weapons than thought. And last, but not least, he spoke of the thousands of cruise missiles unaccounted for around the world. A number of those missiles being nuclear tipped.
In short, because of what he portrayed as a “betrayal by those sworn to protect us,” a nuclear attack within our nation, in his mind, is “inevitable.”
2.) 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.”
He talked of critical infrastructures like water, electricity, fuel, banks, our food supply, medical services, police and firefighters, being unavailable for weeks or months. He warned of the blind panic that would follow such an explosion. Of the looting, of neighbor turning on neighbor to take what they don’t have for their own survival. Of our economy suffering an economic loss in the trillions of dollars.
Knowing this, are you prepared? Can you and your family ride out the frighteningly unpredictable weeks or months following the loss of an American city and its inhabitants? If you are not in the city hit, can you survive?
You must ask yourself this question. For, unless there is a miraculous epiphany about to be visited upon our self-centered politicians, then such an attack is certain.
If our politicians and the voters continue to suicidally put party and partisan politics before the welfare and security of our nation, then the terrorists will find the opening to hit us.
Our government and media are failing us. Prepare for the worst.
Whine on, whinger.
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.....
3) Know that the moonbat political left and their lapdogs, the Democrats, did everything possible to allow it to happen.
Haven't seen anybody complain about split infinitives for decades!
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.
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.
Do your communication skills allow you to express thoughts that don’t fit on a bumper sticker?
Depends whether or not you take the stairs, or the elevator.
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.
Heh heh heh. I have a problem.
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.
Translation: You are displeased that I lack "nuance."
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.
[Evil grin] This ain't necessarily a bad thing, is it?
So tell me about the difference between gerunds and gerundives?
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.
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.
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.