Top US General: ’The Homeland Is No Longer A Sanctuary'

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http://www.businessinsider.com/top-us-general-the-homeland-is-no-longer-a-sanctuary-2013-12



There's a brutal reality that military planners are all beginning to face right now: The Internet is a weapon, and anyone with a computer can now fire the first shot.
"Information technology is the stone in the sling," wrote Richard Lourie of the Moscow Times, "the cheap weapon that can bring down a Goliath."

Indeed, the top dog in the U.S. military, Gen. Martin Dempsey — known above all as a very keen and sober strategist — has acknowledged that no longer can war be effectively waged away from American shores.

Breaking Defense reporter Sydney Freedberg posted the quote:

“The homeland is no longer a sanctuary,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. “Some strategic seminars we ran about a year ago [showed that] if we’re engaged in a conflict virtually anywhere in the globe there is likely to be some effect in the homeland, whether it’s potentially ballistic missiles or cyber.”



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[RC]

1. Paranoia, it's everywhere! Everyone stand still for your daily orifice and crevice probings.

How about some cooperation, instead everyone else being a criminal suspect?

[hobbit709]

2. "The Homeland"? Now who else liked to use that term?

[Ikonoklast]

8. I detest that term. I live in The United States, the country of which I am a citizen.

I feel no connection or loyalty at any level to anything called the "Homeland".

[Berlum]

9. I live in the USA. I support America. The "Homeland" is a CorporoFascist, Inc. (R) prole state

And there is no way any honorable, unbrainwashed American would want to live in the gawdforsaken Homeland, Inc. (R). that RepubliBaggers want to shove up America's keester.

The freaking "homeland" is a completely repulsive Republicon, Inc. scheme.

[surrealAmerican]

3. It never was.

We have never been safely isolated from the consequences of our actions.

[truebluegreen]

4. Then maybe it is time to drop the permanent war stance

which does nothing to keep us safe and never did.

[HereSince1628]

5. As if this nation ever was such a sanctuary.

This talk merely facilitates encroachment of militarism in the budget formulation.

Jingo bells, jingo bells, jingo...all the way!

[jwirr]

6. Or more overstretch. That is as dangerous to our nation as the others but the MIC refuses to listen

[SomethingFishy]

7. Must suck not having all that secrecy..

Really must suck knowing that the people who are footing the bill are actually becoming informed as to where their money is going..

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Erect bogeyman (or, bogeymen), wave flag, more $$ for MIC, clamp down on dissent.

[Rex]

11. “The homeland is no longer a sanctuary,” says General Propaganda.

NO SHIT, says Rex. Did we already forget about 9/11 General Moran?

STOP using the term 'Homeland', it makes you sound like a fascist stooge.

[Autumn]

12. IMO the United States of America is no longer safe due to

fucking low life douche nozzle wrappers like this worthless asshole Gen. Martin Dempsey and his ilk. Take your "homeland" and shove it up your whatever. Fuck him and his bull shit.