Yes, we had a similar "headsup" about smallpox shortly after 911 (I had to read and lecture our clinic staff on the plans on how to vaccinate the population and isolate the cases).
Dark winter scenerio was the worry; but with modern transportation, it would spread back to the Middle East. Yetnext to smallpox, "dirty bombs" seem more like weapons of propaganda. The real worry is a nuke that works.
But this is the real worry:
3) Obama’s statement that if we are hit with a WMD strike, we would go to the UN first, and not retaliate.
I suspect if we said coldbloodedly that we'd take out Mecca and Qom that might stop such an attack. but the problem is that no one would really believe that Obama had the guts to do it.
Hillary, yes. Palin, yes. Obama, no.
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Sarcastic Christopher Hitchens also notes that the "human rights" folks finally are noticing that most of the deaths are from terrorists, not those trying to fight them.
And one of these days, they may notice the schools that recruit and propagandize children to become suicide bombers, and the charities that fund them. Or maybe not.
From Strategypage, who are more sardonic that even Hitchens:
February 16, 2011: While the UN, and the international community, has vigorously sought bans on the recruiting of children (usually boys in their early teens) by rebel groups, and some armies, there has much less outcry over the use of Islamic schools for training and recruiting children as suicide bombers. This is largely the result of the Islamic nations vigorously opposing any such action in the UN. In general, Islamic nations do not want any criticism of their internal affairs, especially if it involves terrorism, or other unsavory practices (pedophilia, violent misogyny, slavery, religious bigotry, corruption in general). This is one thing the Islamic nations can unite on, and the UN has learned to back off.
From Instapundit:
BUT OF COURSE: Human Rights Watch Appoints Terrorist (and “Human Rights Activist”) to Middle East Advisory Board.
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Remember those propaganda "medical" articles printed in a timely matter to condemn Bush's reelection campaign?
Well, a Plos study now notes:
We analyzed the Iraq Body Count database of 92,614 Iraqi civilian direct deaths from armed violence occurring from March 20, 2003 through March 19, 2008, of which Unknown perpetrators caused 74% of deaths (n = 68,396), Coalition forces 12% (n = 11,516), and Anti-Coalition forces 11% (n = 9,954). We analyzed the subset of 60,481 civilian deaths from 14,196 short-duration events of lethal violence to link individual civilian deaths to events involving perpetrators and their methods. One-third of civilian violent death was from extrajudicial executions by Unknown perpetrators...
Yes, those nasty "unknown perpetrators" are to blame.
What is it that Harry Potter calls them? He Who Cannot Be Named?
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Wikileak WTF headline of the day:
In Durham there has long been concern among students that followers of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, an extremist religious authority, were getting publicity and legitimacy for their views because of the prestigious association with the university. Now there is unhappiness, but little surprise, that secret US funding was involved.
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Over 70 protesters against the Iranian gov't from last year's protest have been executed, and now bloggers are in danger.
And moderates behind Monday's demonstrations may be the next casualties.
Foreign policy analysis HERE.
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Just like the communists always saw the socialists as the enemy (since the socialists could implement the good ideas without a full "revolution", so too are moderates who want a conservative Islamic influence in government with democracy the real danger to the Mullahs and their theocratic plutocracy).
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The enemy isn't Islam, but a rabid form of fascism that uses Islam as a front. Think Nazis who used both the churches and scientific theories of eugenics to justify their murderous ideology, and you can see how easily good ideas can be twisted.
The most dangerous "enemy" is one who twists the truth to do evil, not one who is openly evil.
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