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Robert Schlesinger

Nuclear or Biological Terrorism in the Next Five Years

December 02, 2008 10:28 AM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.

Here's one early benchmark for an Obama administration: If we haven't been hit with a nuclear or biological attack by the end of his first term (or more precisely, the end of the first year of a second term), it's a success. Happy holidays!

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You might enjoy this link, if you have a brain...

Religion is the enemy of reasoned thought. Where religion's influence is minimized, there is technology and comfort. Where religion's influence is maximized, there is ignorance, injustice, torture, and murder. When Pakistan separated from India, it remained a religious state: now, it is a jealous state. Jealous of India's schools (secular and separate from religion) and the higher quality life and of technological advancement that has accompanied them.

I am not religious in the slightest, nor am I a zionist. But the author interviewed here makes some good points that most people are not familiar with, when he talks about the threat of terrorist attack.

http://www.jpfo.org/tta/tta050812.htm

I also recommend this link:

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_topic_religion

Nuclear-Biological...what's the difference?

Both kill in great numbers. Of course, the terrorists are going to use the easeist method for the most wide-spread terror. If the world's nations cannot get their act together to combact terrorismm, then they deserve what they get.

The nations have the power to do this...but they don't seem to have the will. As before World War I and World War 11, the Europeans seem top want APPEASEMENT. It has not worked before...why would it work now.??? I am tired of worn-out European solutions. For centuries, they have not got it right. Who the hell are they to lecture us??? I love the Brits and any country that opposes the Russians. Our greatest threat right now is Russia..not Iran. We can vaporize Iran in minutes...Russia may take a few hours.

Terrorism

Sad to say, it's on the way! We FORGOT 9/11, shoveled the human remains of approx. 3,000 people into a GARBAGE DUMP on Staten Island, can hardly wait for a new, improved "Freedom Tower", what hubris! There is NO radical Islam, read your Koran. This violent, repressive and expansive so-called religion has vexed the world for hundreds of years. But we, being the childish and naive sheep that we are, will always believe that somehow they won't win! Guess what, they have won numerous times, here and abroad. Let's see how Obama, the Black Messiah deals with this mess, with Hillary the carpetbagging phony as SecState. I'm 'sitting Shiva' for America, and will contact the NRA.

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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