Excerpt from Bill Arkin's latest blog entry on WaPo. Couldn't have said it better myself......the full entry deserves reading......rf
< -> Terrorists have the "capability" to obtain illicit nuclear materials, the "capability" to fabricate 10-kiloton nuclear devices, the "capability" to smuggle not one but two nuclear devices into the United States,and the "capability" to get one of those nuclear device to downtown D.C. and detonate it. A terrorist group has been given all of these "capabilities," by someone writing a fictional account of a non-existent organization. Don't you get it? "Actual terrorist organizations' capabilities" become plausible threats through sheer repetition and the WMD stranglehold. The threats, realistic or not, influence policy and plans. In turn, those policies and plans makes the threats seem real. The necessity for war against Saddam Hussein, a U.S. first strike on North Korea, a suspension of U.S. law to fight the Universal Adversary -- pretty soon just about anything can be justified to keep those mushroom clouds away. <- > Thousands of federal government employees evacuate to their bunkers, hundreds of federal state, and local officials "practice" disaster response to a nuclear attack, the FBI and "Delta Force" like commandos take to the domestic alleyways in Top Secret operations, all because a butterfly flapped its wings in Asia. It all ties in so nicely. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/06/the_attack_has_already_h appene.html _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list [email protected] https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior
