Who's on First?
The constantly on-edge apocalyptic overtones of the current situations in Iraq and North Korea are really starting to tick this old Ranter off quite a bit. As many of my friends visiting this site I grew up in the 1950 and 1960’s era of the nuclear cold war, missile silos implanted throughout our wonderful country, Strategic Air Command bombers constantly in the air carrying nuclear payloads. The poor self-sacrificing crew waiting for that one signal emanating from a hidden fortress ordering them to open the doors, drop the payload and fly like to hell to return home and bid their families goodbye before the other countries missiles hit.
During that long cold war were facing threats from one country, Russia, now even greater threats and challenges present themselves to us with two countries constantly beating nuclear war drums loud enough to awaken General George S. Patton from his long slumber. Nothing is making sense in the world, but just for the heck of it let’s go over a few of the players.
North Korea totally loves the international attention every time they place a missile on the launch pad, they revel in it then when their long-range rocket splashed into the water thirty seconds later they tell the world they planned it that way, we really got to love total idiots like that. However, the fact remains they will manage to hit the magic formula, steal it, barter or buy, in any case, they will be a threat soon. When they are operational and their arsenal rests in the hands of their moronic self-serving leader the threats will be coming on a daily basis.
(Ranter Note: My country links are to the CIA World Factbook. I Love that CIA World Factbook, you can click this link to download a copy, or this one to view the main page and bookmark it. It is a great, informative publication, but for anyone on a dial up The World Factbook requires about 30 megabytes of disk space for the .Zip files and about 80 megabytes of disk space for the publication once it is unzipped.)
Iran, now there is a different animal altogether, mostly predator, but somewhat of a skunk combined with a bird of prey. Their enigmatic, megalomaniac leader stands before crowds of reporters calling for the open destruction of the state of Israel while making nuclear threats to the United Nations if they impose sanctions. This guy is not only well entrenched within the idiot crowds I often speak of he is missing just about every common sense marble a human brain could possibly have.
Charles Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution would be proud of him and parade his photos during every speaking engagement. “Ladies and Gentleman I have found the missing link, I will call him, Megalomaniacal, not enough brains to chew gum and pass gas at the same time, Stand-it-up-is.” “He can stand on two legs, walk, sit, but science is having a difficult time attempting to place his intelligence factor. So far we have been able to determine his IQ is somewhere between a dead pidgin and a snake, but we are working on it.”
We cannot neglect to bring into this ever-growing picture of destruction the present status of the world; Israel is fighting anyone attacking it, well, that is until their prime minister is thrown out of office for his last debacle, the Gaza Strip, Palestine, (Hezbollah, Hamas and joining them soon the Fatah party are fighting Israel and anyone who is ticked off at anyone else if about to fight. (Long sentence, I know, but hey, I'm ticked off so bad sentence structure is allowed. ) Suffice to say, it is interesting times we are living in.
Now we have Iran questioning the wording of the United Nations order with a field of their scientists clamoring away at one another and the UN. Let us not forget that as of yesterday the United States was no longer the lone voice in the wilderness when German joined in voicing their displeasure.
So, what can we possibly create from all of this nonsense, war screaming, threats and who knows what else? I really have no idea, but being ticked off tends to work very well for me. Perhaps it is time to all join Mamabear and Papbear in that Bomb shelter they talked about or just go on with our lives as we all did during the cold war. I sure do miss those cool air raid drills we used to have anyway.
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"Duck and Cover" was REAL my dear Ranter.. Check this out:
from here: http://www.nysun.com/article/23684
Truth Out of Poland
New York Sun Editorial
November 29, 2005
When President Reagan described the Soviet Union in 1983 as "an evil empire," he was widely denounced as a warmonger. The British historian Eric Hobsbawm, whose bestselling history of the 20th century, "Age of Extremes," has become a standard text on many campuses, reckoned that in the "Second Cold War" that began in 1979 when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, American democracy was "more dangerous" than Soviet totalitarianism. "The hysteria in Washington was not, of course, based on realistic reasoning.... There was absolutely no evidence, or likelihood, that the USSR wanted a war...let alone that it was planning a military attack on the West. The feverish scenarios of nuclear attack which came from the mobilized Western cold warriors and government publicity in the early 1980s were self-generated," he wrote. Historians of the 21st century, he predicted, "remote from the living memories of the 1970s and 1980s, will puzzle over the apparent insanity of this outburst of military fever...."
Well, the 21st century is here and it turns out that it is not the Cold Warriors but the "peace movement" that in retrospect looks insane. That is the meaning of the the Warsaw Pact map of Europe covered in nuclear mushroom symbols that was disclosed last week by the new Polish defense minister, Radek Sikorski, and reproduced on our foreign page yesterday. Mr. Sikorski is the Polish patriot who has made it his mission to teach his countrymen the truth about communism. He was recently based at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., until he was elected to the Polish Senate and joined the new government as head of the armed forces. Historians who, unlike Mr. Hobsbawm, do not have a record of lifelong support for communism now have a duty to examine the evidence that is emerging.
Mr. Sikorski's recent press conference, our Daniel Johnson wrote us from London, marked the first time that the Warsaw Pact archives have been opened for public scrutiny. Mr. Sikorski unveiled a battle plan dating from 1979. The Soviet led alliance was then poised for a massive tactical nuclear strike against forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, paving the way for the occupation of Western Europe. Much of Germany, Denmark, and Belgium would have been obliterated, including hundreds of thousands of American military and civilian personnel. This scenario was based on the assumption that NATO would retaliate with its own tactical nuclear weapons against a line of targets in Poland along the Vistula. The Kremlin was cynical enough to expect its Polish ally to launch an unprovoked offensive against the West in the full knowledge that millions of Polish civilians would be sacrificed.
It turns out that many of those who are today's leading European anti-Americans were the same individuals who, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, demanded unilateral nuclear disarmament. It is now clear that the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles by NATO, bitterly opposed by the so-called peace movement, was decisive in deterring a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. Yet not only communists and fellow travelers but leftists on both sides of the Atlantic insisted throughout that America, not the Soviet Union, was the greater threat to world peace, especially once the Reagan administration halted the period of decline that followed the Vietnam War. Wouldn't it be something to have been a fly on the wall when President Putin, the erstwhile KGB colonel who is now leading Russia, clicked on his television to watch Mr. Sikorski, who spent the years of Soviet-imposed martial law in Poland in exile?
The editors of these columns have long been for an Eastern European lustration. But the historical record will be a good start, particularly if other other governments of former Warsaw Pact countries will have the courage to follow Poland's lead and throw open their archives, too. They should ignore not only the Kremlin, but also the hypocritical complaints of those who say that old wounds are being reopened. For these disclosures - and there will be more, once historians have sifted through the documents - have vital lessons for the present. Once again, America is being depicted as an aggressor for standing up to a tyranny that thinks nothing of genocide. Once again, Europe is in danger of losing its nerve. Once again, an administration that refuses to appease the foe is accused of hysteria. Only this time the enemy is not communist but Islamist. The threat that an "Islamic bomb" will be developed and used, either by Iranian mullahs or by terrorists, is real and imminent. It is good that President Bush and veterans of the Cold War, such as Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld, are in a position to ensure that these lessons are learned, not forgotten.
brilliant!!
desert woman
I always look at our bomb shelter as a kind of "art" dedicated to the past. If the bombs started flying I guess I'd either be fighting or dead. Don't think I could hide too long in the dark, not my nature (anger management style).
Skunk and bird O prey. Ha, Darwin is rolling 6 feet under.
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