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Pastimes : WORLD WAR III
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (459)3/20/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 765
 
First, I misread several posts to mean Iraq was being discussed, my apologies for spouting drivel ;)

I think terrorism is a very real danger to US security, both at home and abroad. I havent considered any plausible solution to the problem. But it seems its a frighteningly difficult situation considering that terrorist cells can operate independently anywhere in the world and that they can pop up undetected and unexpected anywhere at any time and disappear without any hard target to retaliate against. I think Ron is on the right track though in supposing the massive nuclear retaliatory threat to terrorist sponsors is at least stopgap deterrance.

At home, we are very vulnerable to attack. There are terrorists living openly in this country, operating behind the very freedoms that ironically they seek to destroy. An even uncoordinated attack on our energy grid and phone network could black out the country in an instant. Every hacker knows how easy it is to get into the Baby Bells or AT&T. I believe the DOD shut down power in the SW as an experiment to see if it could be done (dont quote me, not sure of the veracity of that one). A terrorist with 1 pound of nerve toxin dumped from the top of the World Trade Towers could decimate NYC. A similiar dump from a chartered plane somewhere over the US could do unimaginable damage. We wont even discuss the possibility of a miniaturized nuke in a suitcase set down in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue. If tons of cocaine can be smuggled into this country undetected every year, certainly a single nuclear device could be. The possibilities are endless, and quite scary.
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