Stop it right now!

On MSN.com (the most widely viewed daily news site in the United States), there is an article today that says U.S. and U.S. military not prepared for a WMD attack."

No shit? For real, Homer? Allow me to use my 21 years of miltary service as a background for this post, and let you in on what should not be - but apparently is - a secret. NO ONE is prepared for a WMD attack. Anywhere in the world; any time now; 40 years ago; or 40 years hence.

No amount of money, training, or physical preparation will prepare this country or any other country for the devestation, totatality, long-range health, birth defects, societal frustration, anger, outrage, and eventual backlash of a bio, chem, or nuclear attack of any consequence. The crushing strain of our medical and burn centers will disintigrate the integrity of the insurance business and governmental health components. I could go on for hours and scare the holy shit out of you with prognostications and speculation on how our nation will self-destruct, but that is for some dimwad at MSN, CNN, or ASS to tell you about.

You see, once the world got a good glimpse of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the way the game was played took on a whole new set of rules. Two countries comprehended both the rules and the implications of violations or infractions of those rules: The US of A and The Soviet Union. After bullshitting about in the early 1960's with Cuba and the United States' willing participation in a war intended to do nothing more than show the Soviets we would do anything, at any cost, to come out on top in the "Who-shot-the-rocket?" show, both sides came to the obvious conclusion that the only way to survive a nuclear war was to not have one. That's how SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) and SALTII came about.

If we blew the crap outta Moscow and Vladivostock while they simultaneously barrel-assed Miami and Salt Lake City, the long-term winner would have been? Correct: China.

So the red,white, and blue and the red got together...eyed each other cautiously...and shook hands in the unspoken moment where two parties know something that no one else does. In this case, that would be mutual survivability was the responsibility of both nations.

So if you are a reporter looking for a story, go to UCLA medical center and bother Britney. Stop scaring the shit out of people by telling them their country is not capable of taking care of them, when the truth of the matter is the country never has been able to take care of you with respect to WMD's. Scare tactics are bullshit, and don't create a positive environment for anyone. Instead, tell the truth.

Like I just did.