A Blog for Iowa Reader’s ‘Call to Arms’
by Sean Holzinger, Cedar Rapids
Recently,
I read an article from the New York Times that really got me. Do you
remember when President Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense
Initiative, otherwise known as “Star Wars?” Now it’s known as the
National Missile Defense Program. Despite the technological
advancements this program is fraught with failure – even under a
tightly-controlled environment based on the most ideal conditions. War
is anything but ideal and it’s anything but a tightly-controlled
environment. How can we trust such a system to protect our nation from
a full-scale nuclear assault?
I read a
book a long time ago entitled “Through The Eyes of The Enemy,” written
by GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) Col. Stanislav Lunev and another
book entitled “Biohazard,” written by Dr. Ken Alibek. Dr. Ken Alibek
was second in command over the Soviet Union’s biological weapons
program. It was known as Biopreparat.
In Col.
Lunev’s book, he spelled out the GRU’s capacity to build nuclear suit
case bombs. All the items needed to build such a bomb could easily be
brought into this country via diplomatic pouch. Diplomatic pouches are
not subject to customs inspections since they fall under the laws of
diplomatic immunity. In Dr. Alibek’s book he spelled out the success
that the Soviet Union had in regards to biological weapons, such as
weaponizing the Marburg virus. Marburg is a very close cousin to Ebola.
Within 14 days every major organ in your body is liquefied. They were
also successful in creating a biological cocktail weapon known as a
Chimera weapon. They would take a strand of DNA from two biological
pathogens and impregnate them into another, such as taking a strand of
DNA from anthrax and a strand of DNA from smallpox and injecting them
into something like Marburg.
This
leads me to this question. Would a National Missile Defense System
protect us from a chemical, biological, or radiological attack? If the
money ($50 billion) is to remain in the Defense Department, shouldn’t
it be put to solutions to more practical threats we face as a nation?
After September 11, 2001, Shrub and Rumsfeld said we are in a new kind
of war. I agree with them, we are. However, I have a question for Shrub
and Rumsfeld. If we are in a new kind of war, why are you stuck in the
past with a Cold War mentality? With their “misleadership” and apathy,
we face greater threats now than ever before. Syria and Iran now have a
mutual defense alliance agreement. Iran may now be a nuclear threat as
well as North Korea. And the Middle East is a more dangerous powder keg.
Thanks
to Shrub, the noose is tighter around our neck and we have very few, if
any, tools at our disposal to alleviate the situation that would make
us safer. This band of pitiful people that now occupy the White House
have proven themselves as diplomatic failures and our military is
stretched beyond all limits.
As a
Progressive, I’ve been told by the media and the talking head class on
the television talk shows, radio talk shows and the corporate-driven
printed press that I’m weak on national security and national defense.
In fact, I take a back seat to no one when it comes to the defense of
our great nation. The blood of the “Minute Men” runs through my veins
as my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. I think it’s High Time
that we Progressives answer the Clarion Call of our Nation before it’s
too late. Let us be the “Minute Men/Women of our time. We should take a
back seat to no conservative.
We have
a proven track record in regards to the defense of our nation.
President Wilson was the one with the idea of the United Nations
[League of Nations]. It was FDR that saved the world from fascism. It
was Kennedy that saved the world from the brink of nuclear
annihilation. It was Carter that put human rights at the corner of our
foreign as well as defense policies. So say we all!!
Blog For Iowa 
good job nicely done informative to to point of creating an interest
but i could be a little bit prejudiced not
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Sean,
Nice job – very interesting read! Hope to hear more from you on BFIA.
The missile defense thing has always made me angry, too. The tests of the system have been covered in the journal “Science” extensively over the last number of years. Clearly we do not have the technology to make this thing work, which has been proven over and over by the many test failures. Of course, the whole point of the thing is to put offensive weapons in space. These guys don't care about the defensive part anyway, so it doesn't matter to them if the tests fail. I only realized this part of it in the last year or so.
Thanks again for sharing!
Alta Price
altaprice@mailblocks.com
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