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What Is the Plan If There's Another 9/11? |
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from JustinLogan.com
Entered into the database on Friday, July 22nd, 2005 @ 14:43:39 MST |
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According to Philip Giraldi, writing in the new issue (not online) of the American
Conservative, it's to nuke Iran: The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's
office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing
up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist
attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on
Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons. Within Iran there
are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program
development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground
and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option.
As in the case of Iraq, the response is not conditional on Iran actually being
involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States. Several
senior Air Force officers involved in the planning are reportedly appalled at
the implications of what they are doing--that Iran is being set up for an unprovoked
nuclear attack--but no one is prepared to damage his career by posing any objections. Umm, could the Emm Ess Emm pick this up? Especially considering that several
of the hardened suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites are in the
middle of Tehran? So does this mean we are going to nuke the capital of Iran?
And in this case would we parachute in exiles to run the place afterward, or
attempt a colonial administration? What effect would the radioactive fallout
have on our decision? I mean, surely the NYT and WaPo can find a lede here: "US
has plan to nuke Tehran if another 9/11." Can we get at least a bloody
story out of this? Sorry to sound breathless, but the prospect of nuking Tehran
is over my breathlessness threshold. As if we needed another reason to hope
there's not a terrorist attack on the U.S... The current issue of TAC also includes a sharp article by Christopher
Layne, arguing that, while failure is pretty much a fait accompli in Iraq,
there's failure and then there's failure. Getting out sooner,
as Layne argues, would make failure less detrimental to America. Say what you will about Pat Buchanan, TAC's a pretty interesting mag,
particularly when compared to its intra-right-wing competition. I mean, honestly,
how much do we really need another Sufi partisan article by Stephen
Schwartz or another "Aha! NOW I've found The Connection!" article
by Stephen Hayes? |