Invest in gasmasks (link):
WASHINGTON – The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.
It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists.
“Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing,” states the report, obtained by The Associated Press. It is scheduled to be publicly released Wednesday.
The commission is also encouraging the new White House to appoint one official on the National Security Council to exclusively coordinate U.S. intelligence and foreign policy on combatting the spread of nuclear and biological weapons.
The report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, led by former Sens. Bob Graham of Florida and Jim Talent of Tennessee, acknowledges that terrorist groups still lack the needed scientific and technical ability to make weapons out of pathogens or nuclear bombs. But it warns that gap can be easily overcome, if terrorists find scientists willing to share or sell their know-how.
“The United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists,” the report states.
I’ve had a lot of crazy ideas of worst case scenarios and things that terrorists could do to really screw us up, but I’ve been careful not to share them until now for the most part.
But one fear that I have is that terrorists will set up an incubator to create the superbacteria that is antibiotic resistant. I believe they will do this by setting up daycare centers and getting a bunch of babies together while their parents work unsuspectingly. The babies will synergize their bacteria on shared toys and only the strongest bacteria will thrive because the babies’ immune systems will fight off most of the diseases, and then the babies will be taken to other people’s homes on social outings, infecting everyone who comes anywhere near them, and crippling our society with stomach bugs and the flu.
Sorry, I digress. What was I saying? Oh yeah, this may justify more than 20,000 troops in a standing peacetime army active in the United States. (link) Drudge’s headline was priceless: Passe Comitatus… “or other domestic catastrophe”.
Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like that. I want strict guidelines, because the way I see it, they could be standing guard outside stores the next time Walmart has a sale on televisions. (link) Besides, isn’t this why we have National Guardsmen?