The bad/sad thing is...we ARE going to have to take one (or more) on the chin. We have been free of the bombings since 9-11 here through tireless & extreme measures of security. Part of those extreme measures are in fact war & posturing for war against countries who support the people who want to kill us.
With our style of life, we can't protect our country 100% without draconian measures being taken. I would say we are approaching that threshold but we aren't there yet. We are almost certainly going to be hit again inside our borders, you can bet on it, if we get a leader who is wishy-washy & weak on our security in the next presidential elections it'll just happen that much sooner.
What are we to do? If we preemptivly (sp?) strike those who wish our destruction, we're monsters & if we wait until they kill several thousand or more of our citizenry, we're suckers & seen as weak thus inviting more attacks.
We are on a path that takes us down a road without an end. If we kill a terrorist, we piss of his family & make more terrorsists. If we don't kill him we get hit. I mean really, what are we supposed to do? I am firmly against using nuclear weapons as a first strike option, it will turn the entire world against us & seeing as how we are nearly there now without using them because of the rest of the worlds jealousy of us, we can't afford to do it.
The Chinese & Russians (& others including some fair weather friends) Have had a strategy on the books for decades about how to deal with the U.S.A.
First they use E.M. pulse weapons which will incapacitate us almost completely & we will not know who delivered the weapon for quite some time. While we are scrambling to fix the vital war/defense mechanisms they hit us with several neutron bombs. The idea is to break the will of the population of the U.S. (which the world views as weak) to fight & lose large numbers Americans doing so. When we roll over & pee on ourselves, they dictate terms.
The American experts in the E.M. weapon field say we would be mostly incapacitated for 6 to 8 weeks. The Russian & Chinese experts say 6 to 12 months. Either way they have plenty of time to do whatever they want to do & superior numbers also. Another thing in their favor is, if we retaliate in a like manner, they will not lose their ability to make war & feed themselves on the same scale as we will.
The main obstacle to that plan is the massive number of armed citizens in the U.S. & they know they would have to come & get us, or wait for the population to begin to suffer massive losses due to starvation & disease & by that time the govt. would have her war fighting capabilities back.
Oh what a tangled web we weave. First strike nuclear weapons? Nope. Sit around on our hands & wait for someone to kick us in the nuts? Nope.
Just what are we supposed to do? Surrender so no one gets hurt but us?
Nope.
it's too bad we can't solve the worlds problems from the AH bbs. Hey that's an idea, make the worlds leaders settle their differences in the D.A. LOL
