Why is it that "National Security" is the only matter where Obama looks backward rather

[truedelphi]

Than forward.

(BTW, George Bush Sr's autobiography was entitled "Looking Forward!"

We have had only a smattering of incidents where people brought incendiary devices aboard a plane, and those didn't, thank Goddess, end up costing any lives.


The real issue of anyone analyzing where this nation is in terms of our security is that of a small plane aerosolizing radiation or a viral or bacterial agent like Anthrax over the heads of people in a heavily populated area.

When that happens, Our President is going to stand over the coffins and say: "We couldn't have foreseen this."

And all of us who have been rueing the stupidity and affronts to our personal liberty will say, "Hells' Bells, Mr President if you had looked forward rather than back, you might have foreseen this."

How much would it cost to see that each household had the Cipro, doxycycline or iodine tablets that will be needed in such a crisis?

Apparently supplying the citizenry with such safety measures doesn't allow for anywhere near the profits to Corporate America that buying countless machines that emit who knows how much radiation for airport screening activity.

Apparently REAL SECURITY MEASURES are to be ignored, while those that help to bring about further Nazification of our nation will be given the green light.

[Blue Owl]

1. Our country would be more secure

if people like GWB were held responsible for their crimes.

[truedelphi]

2. I'm in full agreement with you. n/t

[Recursion]

7. How is that a security issue?

I'd love to see the dude frog-marched, but I don't see how it would have any bearing on our security.

[Blue Owl]

10. IMO, letting war criminals run free

generally isn't good for anyone's security. It only helps to fuel the fires of war, terrorism, and ushering in the police-state shock doctrines and creeping fascism we are witnessing today.

[woo me with science]

3. Damn.

I forgot where I put my duct tape and plastic sheeting.

[SixString]

4. Keep looking forward ,like this guy.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Let me guess:

[Recursion]

6. Preparing to fight the previous war is the human condition, unfortunately

Not sure there's a way to change that.

[bvar22]

8. No. Fighting the last war is NOT a "human condition"

There are many examples of humans who were (and are) NOT locked into formal, conservative thinking....

*the Japanese High Command (Yammamoto ?) pre-1940 (use air power against Battleships)
(Jimmy Doolittle deserves a mention here too)

*The German designers of Blitzkreig

*The NVA and the Viet Cong

*Last, but certainly not least, Osama.
He brought the World's Greatest Superpower to its knees with a handful of fanatics armed with box cutters.

[kickysnana]

9. Mike Osterholm, with his own new bio-terror lab a the U of MN

wrote a book about how the government should control people, states and state health departments by withholding medicines and vaccines from people when they were needed.

Forward looking on AIDS. Power has made him morph into a fireman who starts fires so he can put them out and be a hero.

There is a special place in hell for people like him.

:nuke:

[truedelphi]

11. Thank you for pointing this man out.

I hope Obama doesn't hear about him.

If he does, Osterholm will probably be given his own agency to oversee.