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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Threat After the Livermore Study Group: Radical Islam

"Of all the threats that could inflict major damage to the US, terrorists using weapons of mass destruction is the threat for which the nation is least prepared," was the conclusion of a 1996 inteligence study chaired by former Central Intelligence Agency director James Woosley. Known as the Livermore Study Group, its main objective was to identify current threats against the United States, as to the ways to mitigate risk, and to have a better management and knowledge of weapons of mass destruction that may end up in the wrong hands.
Usually the wrong hands are correlated with the wrong brains and any adversary to Western culture is a potential threat. A national nascent policy that addresses the threat of weapons of mass destruction does not help much either. How do our enemies see this new phase in our national security system? Very tentative.
The threat of Iran, North Korea, China, India, Yemen, Afghanistan, and similar nations is vivid. The chaotic and uncontrollable border security between the American and Mexican lines adds wood to the terrorism fire. The familiarization, commercial trading, and establishment of mutual relations between North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela, descentralizes the threat to the southern part of the hemisphere making it a broad and massive threat to our resources. The spread of the threat will go as far as we allow it to go. The threat is against us and we must act promptly, firmly, and effectively.
No control and/or elimination of the threat will be ever successful with diplomacy. We continue experimenting with diplomacy because our nature takes over. We need to shift to the execution of strategies that abolishes the threat from its roots. If this means to put to sleep every terrorist caught, this is exactly what is going to bring victory. No other plan will be victorious, no other alternative will defeat terrorism, no diplomacy has ever been effective against terrorism, and no mercy shall be impossed when dealing with the threat of radical Islam.
The Livermore Study Group has warned us of the need of multilayered defense from detection and prevention to reversal and response to counterrest the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Taking in consideration that the study was done 14 years ago as a proactive approach after the 1993 coward terrorist attack to the World Trade Center in New York City, and the 1995 henious terrorist attack to the Alfred Murray federal building in Oklahoma City, the threat of terrorism has been given attention but not the necessary one.
In 2001, the conclusion of an unfinished business was clear after the complete destruction of the world economic icon, the World Trade Center. World report footage has shown Islamic celebrations around the world for what for us were tears, for them were joyful parties.
The Livermore Study Group could not predict that a WMD by the denomination of "aircraft" was possible or tentatively useful for the radicals that died in the name of their God. No further intelligence study has proposed that dying in the name of God is considered a threat to our society. Religion and politics does not mix, to some scholars. Religion is as powerful as it is politics; the only difference is that politicians have the control of the dissemination of news, reports, and critical and real threats. The people will be exposed to what governments are allowing them to know. This is not a matter of democracy, republic, dictartorship, or anarchy. This is a matter of a rusty, nasty, and controlled political agenda that acts like a virus in all societies. However, religion is blantly and straightforward. We, Americans are the enemy of Islam. The world population is changing and nations around the world are experiencing Muslim growth, and so is the threat. Radical Islam is committed to erradicate all of those that are not Muslims, period.
The point is made. Can we adopt a diplomatic approach to prevent the enemy from killing us? I think, this question needs to be answered by Barack Hussein Obama, the first president of Muslim roots. The threat of weapons of mass destruction still latent while Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and North Korea are still hosting terrorists to attack our freedom.