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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (199201)8/31/2004 11:55:24 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1574273
 
This is the most uninformed thing I've ever seen you post here -- and I don't say it lightly. You and Fowler are both speaking idiotically on this. To suggest that people ARE NOT in grave danger (even though Bush has greatly reduced that danger) is simply ignorant. A nuclear device detonated in Times Square isn't beyond the realm of possibility. Even if it is 1/10000th of 1 percent over any given unit of time (a year), the expected loss is staggering.

What's changed?

Since WW II, we have been told by our leaders that we are under threat from attack.....especially nukes. A nuke in Times Square is no scarier that an armada of missiles flying over our borders.

Increasingly, I believe that American leaders, particularly those of the GOP persuasion, use the potential of an attack to promote their particular agenda. When the Soviet Union was still intact, the threat was nuclear missiles. During Clinton and with the collapse of the USSR, the fear of attack declined measurably.

And then on 9/11 we were attacked not by nuclear missiles nor by a nuke in a suitcase but by a method that until then had been imagined only by a Hollywood producer. And all the money we had spent on defense......the trillions over 50 years....all the elaborate preparation.....bases, secret headquarters, stealth fighters....all the worrying and fear.....generation after generation........was all for naught. The attack finally came and we were not ready nor are we ready now.

I am fairly certain that the next attack will not be a nuclear devise in Times Square nor will it be a nuclear missile nor will it be a plane flying into the WTC. I don't know how it will come but I know one thing for certain.........starting pre emptive wars in the ME will not spare us nor prevent it.

Its time for a change!
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