Winds of War: A Study in Contemporary History

Contemporary History 101
Term Paper
UCLA: Spring Semester 2020
Instructor: Jeffery Smith

It was called the American Hiroshima.

Within 24 hours of eight American cities suffering the effects of radiation and blast damage in June of 2010, Islamic terrorists claimed responsibility. Immediately middle-east and far-east Muslim news outlets praised the attacks as a retribution from Allah.

Those are the widely known facts. But my research, as this paper will show, based on sources in the government who now have come forth years later, will show what actually transpired after the attack and the outcome that we live with today.

In less than week after the attack, a vast majority of Americans demanded retaliation on someone – anyone - for the hundreds of thousands of American killed or dying from radiation poison. Not to mention the economic havoc caused by the total disruption of commerce between our major cities after New York, Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston were nuked. Within the week, the DOW had dropped 10,000 points and the NASDQ Index was virtually wiped out.

Only Washington DC was spared when the nuke misfired and did not initiate a nuclear detonation in a subway car under the Capital. The ‘dirty bomb’ and the resulting radioactivity was contained underground.

The White House under President Giuliani was stormed with demands from Americans to revenge the dead. Some mosques across the country were bombed or set aflame with some Muslim congregation casualties and many middle-east looking places of businesses were ransacked by mobs. CAIR and other Islamic civil rights organizations demanded that the White House protect Muslim-Americans. The President called out the National Guard and imposed a curfew on the affected cities threatening martial law in the personal retributions did not cease.

The White House under President Giuliani was stormed with demands from Americans to revenge the dead. Some mosques across the country were bombed or set aflame with some Muslim congregation casualties and many middle-east looking places of businesses were ransacked by mobs. CAIR and other Islamic civil rights organizations demanded that the White House protect Muslim-Americans. The President called out the National Guard and imposed a curfew on the affected cities threatening martial law in the personal retributions did not cease.

Based on transcripts from White House meetings that week President Giuliani knew an incorrect response would hurl the world into a holy war that would result in hundreds of millions of people dead that would make WWII look like a domestic squabble. He was quite aware of, and warned against in his campaign speeches that Islamists wanted to actually bring on this holy war. They had to force America to violently and irrationally act in order to gain the rabid support of over one billion Muslim throughout the world. Giuliani knew that any reaction by America – passive or active – would give the Islamists the proof that America was either too weak to respond to attack or would embark on persecuting Muslims in their midst. Thus was the impetus for his historic speech to the nation on June 11, 2010.

It’s reproduced here.

Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.