How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
"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.
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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!" _________________ http://www.openspeech.org - please visit and post!
We won't be "safe from terrorism" until we learn to "play well with others!"
And vice versa? _________________ "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts.
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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