The main stream media and political leaders seem to me to be runnning around like chickens with their heads cut off while no one is asking the public to consider the tough questions that need a concensus answer.
In this vain I offer below 7 "thought experiments". Provide your own answers or more questions as you see fit.
- If a purely criminal terrorist extortion group obtained a WMD and put a $1 billion ransom on a US city do you think our government would pay off? Should they pay off?
- Would you support a complete US withdrawal from the mid-east if Al Quaeda stopped their attacks on the west?
- Do you think we can indefinitely keep Al Quaeda from destroying a US city?
- Do you think current US policies in the mid-east increase or decrease Al Quaeda's determination to cause mass destruction?
- Do you think the US military would suspend the constitution if Al Quaeda nuked a US city?
- If Al Quaeda nukes a US city do you think it beyond the realm of possibility that a US terrorist group could nuke Mecca in revenge?
- Do you think a sudden and severe disruption of oil supplies would take us back to 19th century levels of population and economic activity or do you think we would fall right off the cliff and revert to stone age levels of population and economic activity?