American Hiroshima

by Mark M. Alexander - September 1st, 2006 - Townhall.com

What, specifically, is the threat posed by these Islamic fascists? Is the threat limited to the occasional believer mowing down a few American Jews with an SUV?

Of course not. Nor is the threat limited to the sort of mass murder we witnessed five years ago this month in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.

Rather, as this column has stated time and again, the real threat posed by Islamic fascism comes in the form of a nuclear device in the hands of a terrorist surrogate. In the present case, the Cold War's deterrent doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) does not apply. A nuclear strike against the United States won't come in the form of a missile launch from silos on the other side of the world, or a submarine lurking off our shores. Rather, as a recent RAND study speculates, a nuclear terrorist attack against the U.S. will come from a cargo container aboard a freighter arrived in a U.S. port, or, alternately, transported across the porous southern border with the same mechanisms used to smuggle tens of thousands of illegal aliens every year.

This article really points out two different serious problems. The first is that most of our main stream media (MSM) will not even cover the growing problem with Islamic individuals taking an individual action to kill innocents. After all, we can't have people thinking this really is a war, now can we. (Sarcasm intentional)

The second problem is the more serious though. There really is little doubt that at some point nuclear bombs will be going off in America. This is becoming more and more certain as the Democratic Party continues to insist that any action to defend ourselves as if we are at war, hurts their chances of election, and is therefore "politicizing the war".