Totally Unprepared

Today's Wall Street Journal has an article about how unprepared the U.S. is for an attack of WMD's, using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

The most important overlooked story of the past few weeks was overlooked because it was not surprising. Also because no one really wants to notice it. The weight of 9/11 and all its implications is so much on our minds that it's never on our mind.

I speak of the report from the Inspector General of the Justice Department, issued in late May, saying the department is not prepared to ensure public safety in the days or weeks after a terrorist attack in which nuclear, biological or chemical weapons are used. The Department of Homeland Security is designated as first federal responder, in a way, in the event of a WMD attack, but every agency in government has a formal, assigned role, and the crucial job of Justice is to manage and coordinate law enforcement and step in if state and local authorities are overwhelmed.

So how would Justice do, almost nine years after the attacks of 9/11? Poorly. "The Department is not prepared to fulfill its role . . . to ensure public safety and security in the event of a WMD incident," says the 61-page report. Justice has yet to assign an entity or individual with clear responsibility for oversight or management of WMD response; it has not catalogued its resources in terms of either personnel or equipment; it does not have written plans or checklists in case of a WMD attack. A deputy assistant attorney general for policy and planning is quoted as saying "it is not clear" who in the department is responsible for handling WMD response. Workers interviewed said the department's operational response program "lacks leadership and oversight." An unidentified Justice Department official was quoted: "We are totally unprepared." He added. "Right now, being totally effective would never happen. Everybody would be winging it."

See it here; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704312104575299082391565318.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion

Another article I had read in the past year said that if a small nuclear explosion happened in a medium size city....there wouldn't be enough beds in ALL OF AMERICA to tend to the sick and dying.

Planet earth has now become a place where a handful of men could bring down an entire nation....but no one wants to talk about it. Maybe it's because we realize there is nothing we can do about it but hope it never happens.

Warren Buffet tells us that nuclear terrorism is a 100% certainty....we just don't know when.

But let's make no mistake....it Muslim extremists could do something to destroy the United States....they WOULD do it.

So where is our confidence? Where is our faith? Is it in man and his governments? Or is it in our creator who promises that this life is just a passing mist and that we are aliens here because this earth is not our home.