Nuclear Terrorism vs. Global Warming 
By Robert Skinner

President Clinton presented Graham Allison with the Defense Department's highest civilian award. Allison was the founding Dean of the JFK School of Government.  He served as special advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Reagan and as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration. As far as his current politics goes he said during a C-SPAN interview on Wednesday, July 11, in response to a caller accusing him or "fear mongering" and wanting US forces to attack Iran which Allison firmly rejects as he calls for very strict and harsh sanctions against Iran by the UN and all its member states.
 

"I'm certainly not a defender of this [Bush] administration. The Bush administration would regard me as one of their most avid critics.  I supported Kerry and Al Gore and supported Gore in 2000 . ...   I call all the issues as I see them. I think it's an extremely complicated world out there and I don't mean to be fear mongering... I think the people who attacked us on 911 would like to conduct future attacks.  Why do I think that "Because I see them saying that; see them trying to do that; I see them training to do that; I see them plotting to do that - a number of their plots being disrupted  . .   Yes indeed its a dangerous world.  If that's fear mongering I'd say, you know, get over it.  That's reality.  The reason for facing reality is not to be fatalistic - not to be, not to be, ah, passive, but actually to be motivated to do the things that we can do to prevent these things happening... "

Allison Graham has just written a new book entitled  "Nuclear Terrorism: the Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe."   In the book   Allison warns of Bin Ladin's energetic efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and the likelihood that he will order them detonated on US soil.

He describes a nuclear terror scenario where Al Qaeda ships in a nuclear weapon(s) into an American port(s) - say Boston, New York, or Los Angeles - and the rest will be a horrific history for America and mankind. Allison believes this is the prime issue Americans all need to be focused upon.  One must ask if the Democrats should be wisely attempt to shift the American attention upon Global Warming.  Al Gore recently said in an NBC interview that his prime goal is to make Global Warming the most important issue for the 2008 Presidential elections.  I'm certain, Graham Allison, the dean of the JFK school of Government, would disagree.

Look Mr. Gore, and all the far left liberals trying to pull out the national security issue and replace it with Global Warming - Yes, its a serious matter and needs tending to but the threat of a nuclear attack by Al Qaeda before us is far  more dangerous.  Of course, no American wants to see more American soldiers die in their fight against Al Qaeda and other jihadists in Iraq.  But pulling out of the fight for our lives there will, as many including Allison agree, only embolden our most fierce enemy since Hitler. Like Hitler, Bin Ladin with nuclear bombs at his disposal, would use them against America that he declared war upon in 1996 during the Clinton - the Bush - Administration.  We are in Iraq to bring democracy - yes - but more importantly we are in Iraq to defeat Al Qaeda as it cleverly uses and intensifies the civil war there to weaken the will of the American people to defeat this new age Hitler. Bin Ladin with nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to not only freedom for America and thus mankind - but a threat to the survival of this nation and all freemen.

As President Kennedy noted in his January 30, 1961 State of the Union address:
 

"I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity. Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain. The answers are by no means clear. All of us - together - this Administration, this Congress, this nation - must forge those answers . .  we do have no greater asset than the willingness of a free and determined people, through its elected officials, to face all problems frankly and meet all dangers free from panic or fear."

Al Qaeda is actively seeking acquisition of nuclear weapons and seeks to ignite them on US soil thus creating the world's most horrific terror attack. Could this nation, and network of free people around the globe, endure if they succeed? The answer is unclear.

Are you wondering why our Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff,is having a "gut feeling" about a significant Al Qeada attack on US soil this summer !!??   It's very likely more than a "gut feeling" as there are some terrible truths we are not expected - apparently - to handle. But John Kennedy would vigorously disagree as he faced down Freedom's greatest nuclear threat during the Cuban Missile Crisis with courage and frank talk to the American people explaining in a world televised broadcast the truth of the catastrophic nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union - And America would stand against this tyranny. The Soviets backed down - barely.

Today, there lurks a ruthless enemy determined to damage this country of the "free and the brave" with unspeakable destructive nuclear force. We must unite as a "determined people" and be prepared to "face all problems frankly and meet all dangers free from panic or fear." All must  prepare to handle the most horrid of truths that Al Qaeda would declare victory of a withdrawing American military force from the battlefield and be all the more driven to deliver "Death to America" via nuclear detonations on the American homeland. Our troops are there to persuade Al Qaeda, responsible for the start up and continuation of the Sunni-Shia civil war (designed to weaken the will of the American people)  that retreat from our engagement with Al Qaeda will not "end the war" but in the long run make it all the more difficult, if not impossible, to win.

Here is another sobering excerpt from Graham Allison as he spoke of Al Qaeda coming to the USA with nuclear weapons:
 

"  ... the intelligence reports suggest that Al Qeada may have acquired three such weapons (nukes) out of the former Soviet arsenal.  And Putin says to Bush I'm going to speak very precisely.  'No nuclear weapons have gone missing during the period which, I, Putin have been president - period.'  So he was not prepared to say anything about the period of Yeltsin which preceded him.  So its possible Al Qeada has a nuclear weapon today and is about to, you know, succeed with its it - with its ambition. I hope and pray its not.  We certainly have no knowledge in the government today that Al Qeada has succeed.  We know of many instances in which it has tried  . .  If they haven't succeeded today that gives us another day to prevent it."

Go to Graham Allison's website at  http://www.nuclearterrorism.org/

America - Unite and be courageous.
 

Robert Skinner is a former Editor of the True North Radio website