Rogue Warrior

[Ronnoco]

Richard Marcinko, a former head Seal and anti-terrorist, writes books that mix fact and fiction. His most recent book "Vengence" is rather interesting in that it rather strongly implies that despite violating peoples rights, privacy, and for that matter the American Constitution with the excuse of protection against terrorism that the US is really just as open to real terrorism as it ever was.

His main point is that anyone can easily secure weapons from many totally lax U.S. government installations, that infrastructure such as electricity and water systems are open to easy intrusion, and that even nuclear plants close to large cities such as New York are as insecure as they ever were.

The "appearance" of fighting terrorism is masquerading for any real progress and protection of the American public in that area. It is probably worse in other countries, since we don't have access to the same level of weapons and protection technology as the U.S.

Ronnoco

[mwfanelli]

Richard Marcinko, a former head Seal and anti-terrorist, writes books that mix fact and fiction. His most recent book "Vengence" is rather interesting in that it rather strongly implies that despite violating peoples rights, privacy, and for that matter the American Constitution with the excuse of protection against terrorism that the US is really just as open to real terrorism as it ever was.

His main point is that anyone can easily secure weapons from many totally lax U.S. government installations, that infrastructure such as electricity and water systems are open to easy intrusion, and that even nuclear plants close to large cities such as New York are as insecure as they ever were.

The "appearance" of fighting terrorism is masquerading for any real progress and protection of the American public in that area. It is probably worse in other countries, since we don't have access to the same level of weapons and protection technology as the U.S.

Ronnoco

Many analysts have said the same thing. We had all the intelligence we needed to stop 9/11 but not the resources to process it and act on it. Bush, as usual, lies about the value of his anti-democracy and anti-Constitutional acts: they just add more clutter, not intelligence. FWIW, a grim milestone was reached in the last few days: the number of American soldiers klilled in Iraq and Afganistan now matches the total killed in 9/11.

The other major problem is the wide open Mexican border. Bush wants the border to remain open and give amnesty to the illegals who enter he country. Congress doesn't have the what it takes to take any action against it: its a political, not real, issue for them. As a result, we have absolutely no idea how many terrorists have entered the country through Mexico. No amount of torture, no amount of Big Brother spying, nor America's equivalent of "The Disappeared" will fix that.

Unfortunately, the reality is worse than any fiction.

[Photo-John]

You want to read a really scary book, get ohn La Carre's 2003 novel, Absolute Friends. It surprised and disturbed me. I will say no more.

[Ronnoco]

You want to read a really scary book, get ohn La Carre's 2003 novel, Absolute Friends. It surprised and disturbed me. I will say no more.

I will look it up.

By the way, I also understand that the new American "secure" passports are wirelessly hackable according to computer specialists.

Ronnoco