I’m not nearly as threatened by Anthrax today either. You can take medication for it. It’s not a life threatening thing if treated properly. (as I understand it)
I’ll grant you that your comments are reasoned. There are chemical weapons being used by ISIS right now that burns the skin though. They say they found it in Iraq.
Are those the types of weapons one might think of as a WMD? Perhaps not. One of those shells emptied and the contents disbursed in a metropolitan city, could cause a lot of disruption.
If it was split up and disbursed over four or five locations, it could affect hundreds of thousands of people.
That still seems to me to be something worth preventing.
We see how easy it is for people with EBOLA to come here. What’s to stop someone with a talcum powder canister full of Anthrax from getting in?
“We see how easy it is for people with EBOLA to come here. What’s to stop someone with a talcum powder canister full of Anthrax from getting in?”
They could send it through the mail if it was packaged well enough. Sniffers were installed in mail processing equipment to detect threats but if no trace is leaking out it will just go on through. ISIS can pick up their package after they fly in on a student visa or walk across the Rio Grande.
“There are chemical weapons being used by ISIS right now that burns the skin though. They say they found it in Iraq.”
That’s easy to believe and it is almost certainly these old artillery shells.
One reason that shell caches like this one still exist is because Rumsfeld went in too light. We didn’t have the troops to secure our rear and Iraqis behind the front were able to spirit off whatever they wanted.
There’s also the problem that Saddam’s people weren’t all that great at keeping records of their weapons and where they were stored.
So God knows how many of these chem shells are floating around Iraq. But I’m sure ISIS will do their best to give the world a good idea.