Do you think, the United States is ready for another terrorist attack?

Question

Do you think the United States is prepared for another terrorist attack?

Answer 1

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THE WAR


Please take the time to read the following essay by Dr. Chong. It is without a doubt the most articulate and convincing writing I have read regarding the War in Iraq.



If you have any doubts please open your mind to his essay and give a fair evaluation.

I had no idea who Dr. Chong is or the source of these thoughts... so when
I received them, I almost deleted them - as well-written as they are. But then I did

a "Google search" on the Doctor and found him to be a retired (November 1, 1994)

Major General Air Force Surgeon of all things and past Commander of Wilford Hall
Medical Center in San Antonio. So he is real, is connected to Veterans
affairs in California, and these are his thoughts. They are worth reading
and thinking about!(the same Google search will direct you to some of his
other thought-provoking writings.)

Subject: Muslims, terrorist and the USA. A different spin on Iraq war.

This WAR is for REAL! Dr. Vernon Ch ong, Major General, USAF, Retired

Tuesday, July 12, 2005


To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country
is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it,
that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are
very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who
realize what losing really means.

First, let's examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United State
is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the
following attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Hobart Towers Military complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.

(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist
attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacked?

Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened
during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2.

We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations

by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.


3. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.

5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the
predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under
the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no difference.

You either went along with the administration or you were
eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for
political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (see
http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm )

Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as
the six million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom
heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept
the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone
who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world
- German, Christian or any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on theUS, but kill
all in the way -- their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else.
The point here is that just l ike the peaceful Germans were of no protection to

anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be,

they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they

are fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements -- killing

all of us "infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do

if the choice was shut up or die?

6. So who are we at war with?

There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the

Muslim terrorists. Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this

conclusion can well be fatal. There is no way to win if you don't clearly

recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

So with that background, now to the two major questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions

We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the
major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the
answer to the second question - What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means
hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our
business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get.

What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the pre mier country in the world. The attacks will
not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us
dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have
produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years.

The plan was clearly, for terrorist to attack us, until we were neutered and

submissive to them.

We would of course have no future support from other nations, for fear of
reprisals and for the reason that they would see, we are impotent and
cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will
be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It
doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its
troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their
train and t old them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain

to do will be done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they
might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished
too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it

may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and

fading fast!

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will
all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us,
if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslims, how

could anyone else?

The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are
completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and
be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until
we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of
our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100%
effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That is,
defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose,

and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort If we are united,

there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way

that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the
life and death seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of transportation.
Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men
between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow
profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This
is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the
civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose

some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them

permanently.

And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil
rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and

in fact added many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political
Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a
clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them
out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration

that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that

this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what

losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy

that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great

damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media
regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies
best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the
treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our
military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago
were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands,
cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for

disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed
400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same
type of enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging

their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type of enemy that was and is providing
videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American

prisoners they held.

Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several days
have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some

Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses

through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.

Can this be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary

of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and

understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and

death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can.

To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes

us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what

is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive

this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians

or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious

to the magnitude, of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim
terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels! That
translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United State, but
throughout the world.

We are the last bastion of defense.

We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge
is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that
we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds
of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our
back, we can defeat anything bad in the world!

We can't!

If we don't reco gnize this, our nation as we know it will not survive,
and no other free country in the world will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom

of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal

rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status or
any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that

contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or
we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the
Roman Empire . If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be

written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims
take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase
the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little,
on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among
themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to

weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound

eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some

external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically

correct piece by politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown,
worldwide that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to
themselves, once they are in power.

They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then
start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the
masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the
"peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are
united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now after the election,
the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation
we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are
talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it.

A fter reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but
our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world.

Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that include

the Politicians and media of our country and the free world!

Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it. Our
"leaders" in Congress ought to read it, too. There are those that find
fault with our country, but it is obvious to anyone who truly thinks
through this, that we must UNITE!

Answer 2

Some large cities are fairly well prepared for the aftermath and apparently we have been pretty good since 9/11 at stopping some attacks in the planning stages. Sooner or later a sneak attack will get through, and it will be as big as the terrorists can make it. Be watchful and report anything suspicious to the police immediately. You may be the one that saves a lot of lives.

Answer 3

This is something that each person should be asking themselves. I would not count on the U.S. to protect us from another attack. Most all of our countries effort, has gone to the war in Iraq. Even though Iraq had little to do with the 911 attack. Ask yourself, has our administration taken any steps to show us how to handle a nuclear attack or any other type of attack. I have not seen that effort. Therefore I would have to conclude that we as a people are probably not ready.

I live in California, I have a feeling the west coast will be the next target. I have taken it upon myself to start preparing for possible attack with a dirty bomb and possibly other forms of attacks. I don't know who will be the perpetrators of such an attack, but it really doesn't matter, so as long as I am safe. I am also prepared not to jump to conclusions as to whom may be responsible for such a future attack. I will reserve making those conclusions, until I have gathered hard evidence.

Would you take a look at about 8 - 10 minutes of this interview with Professor Steven Jones ? It's a 45 minute video and well worth looking at, to its end. At the very least, pass it on to those you care about.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2842384983834100001

Answer 4

More ready in some places, less in others.

We will **NEVER** be ready for all possible terrorist attacks. It can't happen.
We're too big. Even if we give up all of our rights and privacy, there are
still potential ways of hurting us.

Be one with this. Understand it fully before you proceed.

OK, we take reasonable steps to mitigate damage and we try to prevent
the attacks to begin with. However, when they happen, we grieve and
then ... we take reasonable steps to mitigate damage and learn from
our mistakes.

We do not turn the world upside down trying to rid the world of every
terrorist because the process itself CREATES MORE TERRORISTS.

The more important question is: If we have another terrorist attack, will
WE make the problem worse?

Answer 5

If people dont stop worshipping eternal damnation as truth for life, there is no regard for life and therefore that eternal damnation worship turns into destructive behavior, justified by opposing egostistical views of something that is unproven and destructive in its line of thought. This dysfunction will be the downfall of mankind, unless we awaken to it's senselessness and take care of our lives here on earth. Our Kingdom is here on earth where God placed us to live our lives for this time being. Forgive Affirmed Spirit, apostling one unto another is the Way we should follow, not every negative thing that anybody says in history!

Answer 6

Who is ever ready for a terrorist attack? Thoughtless question.

Answer 7

I certainly hope for no more attacks,
However, the American people are ready and capable to defend America at any time, in any location and at any price

Answer 8

Of course not... seeing that we can even prepare for a natural disaster. It's a shame that the country cannot handle things in time of need.

Answer 9

In a word... No. Remember Hurricane Katrina? Pathetic.

And there was warning about that! What happens if it's something *completely* unforeseen? I shudder at the thought.

Answer 10

Yes

Answer 11

it's not ready but the terrorist are