From the Voice of the Pacific.
At 0753 at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the attack that had triggered America’s entry into World War II, sixty-seven years before, was ceremoniously commemorated, an honor guard, taps, a 21-gun salute, the bugle’s notes and the rifles’ crack drifting across the bay to the USS Arizona memorial, where Admiral Arthur Peterson, USN Ret., laid a wreath in memory of the sailors sleeping below, one of whom was his own grandfather.
On the West coast it was 1053, and in Washington D.C. it was one fifty-three in the afternoon, 1353 military time.
In 2006 America, tired of War in Iraq, had elected Democrats to modest majorities in both houses of Congress. Representative Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the House, third in line for the presidency. In the spring of 2007, on a narrow, party-line vote, Congress, led by Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer refused to authorize spending to continue the war in Iraq, and set September 30, 2007, as the deadline for complete withdrawal of American troops.
President Bush spoke to the country, to the American forces in Iraq, to those who had been there, and to the Iraqi people, to apologize for the short-sightedness and irresponsibility of the American congress and the tragedy he believed would follow after leaving task of nurturing a representative and stable government in Iraq half done, his voice choked, tears running down his stoic face, a betrayal of emotion for which he was resoundingly criticized and denounced in much of America’s media.
Go read the rest..and pray to God that he is wrong.
2 comments:
Frightening thing about this scenario, and Phares', and others that are similar is how easy it would be for them to get away with it. Even if we were able to effectively retaliate, we would still be crippled and there would still be billions of them we would be unable to destroy. And, of course, there would be no one with the slightest interest in avenging us -- at least, no one with the means.
Only silver lining I found in this scenario was atomizing Hillary.
Very scary scenario and it seems realistic.
I think the retaliation would be fearsome. The deserts of Arabia would become glass.
The survivors would realize there is only one possible way to continue as such. And would not include the survival of the adversaries.
May this never happen.
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