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OilsNotWell
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:00 pm    Post subject: Mother Of All Blackouts Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005479

Hmmm...

Right idea, wrong cause? May be time for a poll:

Which would be more likely:

1) A terrorist getting a nuclear device, and launching it from a Scud, or

2) Another good, old-fashioned blackout due to Peak Oil?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:36 pm    Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

The war on terror is getting to look more and more like the cold war.

I wouldn't be worried just because the Chinese had one article, in English, on EMP. I've seen lots of writing about EMP here in the US.

And the rhetoric of the report, though couched in "defensive" language, is primarily fightin' words. You can read it yourself:

http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/emp/04-07-22emp.pdf

Here's some choice verbiage:

"The US must establish a global environment that will profoundly discourage such attacks. We must persuade nations to forgo obtaining nuclear weapons or to provide acceptable assurance that these weapons will neither threaten the vital interests of the United States nor fall into threatening hands.

For all others, we must make it difficult and dangerous to acquire the materials to make a nuclear weapon and the means to deliver them. We must hold at risk of capture or destruction anyone who has such
weaponry, wherever they are in the world.

Those who engage in or support these activities must be made to understand that they do so at the risk of everything they value. Those who harbor or help those who conspire to create these weapons must suffer serious consequences as well.

In case these measures do not completely succeed, we must have vigorous interdiction and interception efforts to thwart delivery of all such weaponry.

-- end quotes --

Jesus Christ on a shingle! Don't these thinktankers realize that becoming a paranoid beleaguered supercop makes us MORE the target of terrorism, never LESS!

We won't be "safe from terrorism" until we learn to "play well with others!"
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:47 am    Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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We won't be "safe from terrorism" until we learn to "play well with others!"


And vice versa?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:26 am    Post subject: inevitability Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

both scenarios are going to happen its just a matter of time

maybe not a scud...maybe a sampsonite for the delivery vehicle Wink
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:01 am    Post subject: Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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maybe not a scud...maybe a sampsonite for the delivery vehicle


Exactly. Pouring money into "Star Wars" missile defense is a such a stupid waste. All it would take is some guy sailing up the Hudson with a bomb in the boat.
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