YF, I don't really care what WND or the smirking chimp and his lackeys think.
I think that there are likely a good many loose nukes. It just doesn't make sense to me that, through all the political upheavals and such over the last few decades that none of the people charged w/ keeping them under the control of only the most adept lunatics (i.e. states) have never failed at that task. So, they must be somewhere.
And I think that there are a fair number of people, some of them capable of carrying off a rather complex plan, who hold to the opinion that the US would be the best place to set them off.
There are a lot of reasons why we haven't locked down our borders. First and foremose, physics. It would just be logistically impossible to man every little stretch of border. Second, even if it were possible, it would cut our economy off from the slave labour upon which it depends. Can you even imagine the upheaval if every consumber item now made in China for sale in the US were suddenly unavailable? Never mind the sudden spike in cost of living. It would be physically impossible to gear up all those production facilities, train American workers, etc.
There never has been any practical way to physically prevent acts of sabotage. We curtail it. We discourage it in those relatively few individuals (of the 6 bn of us) for whom the social taboos fail to do the job. But, for the most part, the single most effectiv means we have for keeping human beings from falling upon each other in murderous rampage is the concept of mutual benefit. Most people (as individuals or as groups) will do just about anything, put up w/ just about anything, endure all kinds of oppression and privation to avoid war. Only mad generals and princes ever encourage it.
There are a few encouraging signs, though. Have you noticed that, sometime over the last 4 years, the world (yes! even the US and Britan!) have shifted to the left wrt the West Bank settlements? Never thought I'd see it in my lifetime, but there it is, in all the headlines and hourly news casts. Israeli soldires are holding back Israeli protestors who oppose giving back the illegal settlements.
At the same time, I keep catching timid little pieces in the news and on the educational channels showing Albania as maybe not entirely, 100% innocent victims of insane Serbian agression, but, possibly, maybe, just a little like radical Islamic allies of all of our manufactured future ex freedome fighters.
That, imo, is a far more effective way to disuade the angry ppl from wanting to blow up American cities. And I'm glad to see at least these small gestures toward a more sensible policy.
It is not good
For the Christian's health
To hustle the Aryan, Brown
For the Christian chagrins
And the Aryan grins
And he weareth the Christian down
At the end of the fight
Is a tombstone, white
With the name of the late deceased
And an epithed, drear
"A fool lies here
Who tried to hustle the East.
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
--Ambrose Bierce
