Who in This Forum is Afraid of the Al-Qaeda Boogiemen Killing Us Here?

[michaelwise]

The capability of Al-Qaeda Boogiemen actually inflicting massive harm to our country again is quite remote. A comprehensive congressional and intelligence agency study should be conducted in order to determine the actual combat capabilities of Al-Qaeda.

1) What is their actual combat readiness to mount an attack against us on our side of the planet?

2) What is the size of their army and where are their bases located. Satellite images of their bases should not be difficult to produce.

3) What would be their mode of transport to move their armies to our side of the planet?
a) What is the size and location of their Air force?
b) What is the size and location of their Navy?
c) What missile systems do they control that need to be neutralized.

4) Through what gates of entry into our country would they enter.
a) Hijacked airplanes? What is the probability of this occurrence.
b) Open borders? Ports of entry? What level of head count would make them easily detected? 10, 100, 1000?

5) What level of damage could they actually accomplish given the billions we are currently spending on homeland security.

6) Is the Iraq War justified given the anemic amount of damage the AL-Qaeda could actually do to us currently on our side of the planet?


These and many other questions should be answered in order to justify "killing them there so they don't kill us here", and spending hundreds of billions of dollars doing it.

I have a better chance of hitting the mega-powerball lottery or being struck by lighting than I do of being killed by an Al-Qaeda Boogieman on my side of the planet. This is why i don't live in fear of them.

We spend hundreds of billions on the war on terror with thousands of American lives lost and wounded, you'd think we could spend a couple of million to assess the true nature of the Al-Qaeda threat and ask the question; Is the price justified?

 

[dsentell]

Even though I think Homeland Security is a multi billion dollar worthless joke, and even though they could easily walk right across our border, I have no fear of them due to your points 1, 2 and 3 above. Their chances are nill in those categories.

I do, however, have a degree of fear of some segment of our government pulling off some kind of attack and blaming it on Al-Qaeda . . . . .

 

[Neomatrix]

BOO!!!

 

[Paulitical Correctness]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhta6dmnSE

 

[madRazor]

Sadly, I'm more afraid of the bogeymen in/around our government.

 

[cswake]

Believe it or not they have been consistent in their attacks:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4677978/

Attacks on our soil:
1993 WTC bombing
1998 US Embassy Bombings
2001 WTC bombing

 

[Chibioz]

we know who the real terrorists are

 

[TSOL]

I'm more afraid of our own government than Al Queda

 

[jeff43]

Whether or not we're afraid is irrelevant. It's convincing those out there who are to vote Ron Paul.

 

[freelance]

Believe it or not they have been consistent in their attacks:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4677978/

Attacks on our soil:
1993 WTC bombing
1998 US Embassy Bombings
2001 WTC bombing

How many more people die in auto accidents every year? Have we stopped driving yet?

 

[kyleAF]

The biggest direct-force threat that we have from a terrorist cell is the detonation of a nuclear device at a port after entering in one of thousands of unchecked comex containers.

Device != weapon.

With my engineering degree, I could (nearly) successfully develop a nuclear device. The original uranium bomb wasn't even tested, as it was known for sure that it would work... just a collision to reach critical mass.

A device has no incorporated method of delivery. A weapon does.

The biggest hurdle to the process of making a device is obtaining the material.

That threat is a real threat, but what we're doing now in the "War on Terror" is not addressing the threat, but instead merely fomenting it by getting them even more pissed at us.

The next biggest threat from terrorists is a leeching of our economy through a never-ending war!!! Asymmetric warfare. The terrorists spent something like $1,000,000.00 on 9/11 (roughly), while we've spent untold billions on our response, and still haven't captured Bin Laden (officially). That isn't a sustainable strategy on our part, IMO.

This, btw, was straight out of the mouth of Gen Habiger, former commander of USStratCom when he came and spoke at my school.

 

[Pharoah]

MSM tells us they're under the bed, behind the desk and in the flower pots! It'll be a while yet before the fairy tale is exposed.

 

[Inflation]

OH LAWDY, I is just so scared of the Al Qaeda terror man!

Can't someone DO SOMETHING??!!

I hope that brave Navy Prince, John MuhCain, keeps the 1000 year rise of America going stong. It's the only way to keep me safe from the devil and his boxcutters.

 

[Tratzman]

The real terrorists are the nameless, faceless ones in the black suits and ties.

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

2001 WTC bombing??


BS!!

 

[AJ Antimony]

There's no reason to fear them. They don't have an army at all, they don't have an air force at all, and they don't have a navy at all. For Christ's sake in the 1940s Japan had a hell of a navy and Germany had a hell of an army but they didn't step foot on US soil!

 

[dawnbt]

I live in Mi and I'm not afraid of the Al Qaeda boogiemen! Hell, we got the Michigan Militia!

 

[Ayse]

I have no fear of Terrorists...but I'm God Damned frightened at the destruction of the dollar...

 

[JonathanR]

They don't have to attack us here anymore. They've already almost bankrupted us from over there, and caused America to throw away our freedoms for security. I don't buy into lines that they "declared war on our way of life" but they sure have done a good job trashing it.

 

[MelissaCato]

Good Questions Mike. I'll pop some corn and wait for someone to answer Ya.