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2006-05-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tipper 2006-05-15 02:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Any relation to CHAVEZ's "THE FINAL HOURS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN EMPIRE IS AT HAND" remark ala GUARDIAN.UK.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-15 03:09|| 2006-05-15 03:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Or NEWSMAX.com's LEV NAVROSOV article on Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden, US Army (retired), from whose book Lev summarizes Bearden's claim that "unless the USA engages in a national crash course" on super-nanoweapons, the USA has three (3) years before its total or complete destruction"!? Bearden > the USA is toast by Year 2009.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-15 03:23|| 2006-05-15 03:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Bearden is quite a bit overboard in his assessment. He presumes weapons systems developed by Russia (or rather by SU, as it were), that simply are not there or their results are, for the lack of a better word, capricious. Not mentioning that as the funding ended in early 90's, so did the research. I seriously doubt that any 'transfer' took place.

That does not mean we should be complacent. We'll take some hits, almost certainly, but the question is how much the damage would influence our spirits and what responses we would be willing to employ.

New weapon systems (based on parts of physics that are currently rather unexplored) may be a decisive factor in winning beyond a pyrrhic victory.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-05-15 21:30|| 2006-05-15 21:30|| Front Page Top

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