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01-11-05, 06:25 AM
Texas Hold ‘Em…with Nukes
January 10, 2005
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by Geoff Metcalf
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“Victory without a stand…”
In my 1988 novel ‘The Terrorist Killers’ Scott Ingalls says, “Extreme evil requires extreme justice. I am here to tell you that no terrorist anywhere in the world is safe from us. We will find you wherever you hide. Anyone who aids terrorists shall be treated as a terrorist. Any fool who commits an act of terrorism from this moment forward will be signing the death warrant of his parents, wife, and children. Towns that harbor terrorists will have their police chiefs and mayors assassinated and court houses destroyed. Henceforth, terrorism is forbidden…”
Some critics accused me of being a bloodthirsty knuckle dragging Neanderthal. Seventeen years later I sound like a prophet.
Dr. Jack Wheeler www.tothepointnews.com claims the Bush administration has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca if or when Osama bin Laden should ever try to hit America again. Say WHAT!
A basic principle of military operations mandates “surprise, firepower and violence of action.” A nuke on Mecca covers all three bases…albeit with ‘consequences’.
Frankly, the ‘real’ nuclear option is probably somewhere between unlikely to ‘slim’, but it should be out front as an option…as Dirty Harry would say, “Do you feel lucky punk?”
Mecca is Birthplace of Mohammed. Muslims direct their prayers in the direction of the Holy city. Muslims have a religious obligation to visit Mecca at least once in their lives. Mecca is to Muslims what Jerusalem is to Jews…it is the nexus of their religious being.
The geographic fact Mecca is in Saudi Arabia should motivate our erstwhile allies to join in efforts to ‘dissuade’ bin Laden from mucking around in CONUS.
Nuking Mecca isn’t a new idea…the news is that it has allegedly been articulated as possible policy.
In a March 2002 National Review's blog, Rich Lowry touched on what sort of retaliatory measures should be taken in the case of a nuclear detonation on U.S. soil. E-mail he's received, had "lots of sentiment for nuking Mecca."
He also noted the deterrent effects of radical Islam thinking us so inimitably crazy that we would reduce their holy city to glowing cinders.
The Foggy Bottom gang would (and probably has) throw a hissy fit and suggest such an act would galvanize Muslims against America. Others might suggest the Muslim ‘street’ is already galvanized against us thanks to the work of the Whabbi indoctrinators.
To****sugu Takamatsu, in ‘Ninjutsu Hiketsubun’, wrote, “The essence of the martial arts and the ways of strategy lies in protecting oneself… If you perform the martial arts with an incorrect spirit, instead of protecting yourself, you will end up killing yourself.” Osama should read that book.
In ‘Legacies of the Sword’ Karl F. Friday and Seki Mumitake observe, “While epitomizing and transcending physical combat may seem incompatible goals, traditional bugei thinking asserts that neither is in fact possible without the other. Thus, for the Kashima-Shinryu, the highest expression of shinbu is tatazu-no-kachi’ (“victory without a stand”): to defuse a confrontation or subdue the opponent without recourse to clash of arms”. In otherwords, even 16 th century feudal warlords understood ‘MAD’.
The old cold war military doctrine of ‘Mutual Assured Destruction’ (MAD) worked to preclude nuclear war precisely because the consequences were so horrific.
“MAD reflects the idea that one’s population could best be protected by leaving it vulnerable so long as the other side faced comparable vulnerabilities. In short: Whoever shoots first, dies second.”
If Wheeler’s claim is accurate (or the perception of it is even accurate) then another Osama strike on American soil would result in the nuclear destruction of Mecca. In effect, America would not be responsible for the destruction of the Muslim holy city…bin Laden would be. Bin Laden (and by extension) the strident Whabbists would/could/should become the pariah of Islam.
"Israel … recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt's Damoclean Sword," notes Wheeler. If Israel took out the Aswan Dam all of Egypt would have to move to the third floor. “Once the Israelis made this clear to the Egyptians,” Wheeler writes, “the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone." If anyone doubts Israel has the stones to blow the Aswan Dam they are not among Egyptian strategists.
Wheeler claims The buzz of the bin Laden’s ‘Sword of Damocles’ (Mecca option) floating around the Beltway is growing. He says neo-cons ‘tease’ liberals by tangentially or obliquely articulating the unspeakable. It must be kinda like uttering the name ‘Voldemort’ at Hogwarts.
In 1993 bin Laden told ABC America was “a paper tiger”. After Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993 Osama concluded America had no stomach for casualties. He assumed if he were to bloody Americans they’d run home with their tails between their legs.
Once upon a time me may have been right. However, not today since the ‘Rise of the Vulcans’.
The destruction of New York City or Washington D.C. would be epic. However (to Muslims), it fades to the significance of a small yellow hole in a Montana snow bank compared with the elimination of Mecca. “…Do you feel luck punk?”
Geoff Metcalf
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Ellie
January 10, 2005
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by Geoff Metcalf
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“Victory without a stand…”
In my 1988 novel ‘The Terrorist Killers’ Scott Ingalls says, “Extreme evil requires extreme justice. I am here to tell you that no terrorist anywhere in the world is safe from us. We will find you wherever you hide. Anyone who aids terrorists shall be treated as a terrorist. Any fool who commits an act of terrorism from this moment forward will be signing the death warrant of his parents, wife, and children. Towns that harbor terrorists will have their police chiefs and mayors assassinated and court houses destroyed. Henceforth, terrorism is forbidden…”
Some critics accused me of being a bloodthirsty knuckle dragging Neanderthal. Seventeen years later I sound like a prophet.
Dr. Jack Wheeler www.tothepointnews.com claims the Bush administration has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca if or when Osama bin Laden should ever try to hit America again. Say WHAT!
A basic principle of military operations mandates “surprise, firepower and violence of action.” A nuke on Mecca covers all three bases…albeit with ‘consequences’.
Frankly, the ‘real’ nuclear option is probably somewhere between unlikely to ‘slim’, but it should be out front as an option…as Dirty Harry would say, “Do you feel lucky punk?”
Mecca is Birthplace of Mohammed. Muslims direct their prayers in the direction of the Holy city. Muslims have a religious obligation to visit Mecca at least once in their lives. Mecca is to Muslims what Jerusalem is to Jews…it is the nexus of their religious being.
The geographic fact Mecca is in Saudi Arabia should motivate our erstwhile allies to join in efforts to ‘dissuade’ bin Laden from mucking around in CONUS.
Nuking Mecca isn’t a new idea…the news is that it has allegedly been articulated as possible policy.
In a March 2002 National Review's blog, Rich Lowry touched on what sort of retaliatory measures should be taken in the case of a nuclear detonation on U.S. soil. E-mail he's received, had "lots of sentiment for nuking Mecca."
He also noted the deterrent effects of radical Islam thinking us so inimitably crazy that we would reduce their holy city to glowing cinders.
The Foggy Bottom gang would (and probably has) throw a hissy fit and suggest such an act would galvanize Muslims against America. Others might suggest the Muslim ‘street’ is already galvanized against us thanks to the work of the Whabbi indoctrinators.
To****sugu Takamatsu, in ‘Ninjutsu Hiketsubun’, wrote, “The essence of the martial arts and the ways of strategy lies in protecting oneself… If you perform the martial arts with an incorrect spirit, instead of protecting yourself, you will end up killing yourself.” Osama should read that book.
In ‘Legacies of the Sword’ Karl F. Friday and Seki Mumitake observe, “While epitomizing and transcending physical combat may seem incompatible goals, traditional bugei thinking asserts that neither is in fact possible without the other. Thus, for the Kashima-Shinryu, the highest expression of shinbu is tatazu-no-kachi’ (“victory without a stand”): to defuse a confrontation or subdue the opponent without recourse to clash of arms”. In otherwords, even 16 th century feudal warlords understood ‘MAD’.
The old cold war military doctrine of ‘Mutual Assured Destruction’ (MAD) worked to preclude nuclear war precisely because the consequences were so horrific.
“MAD reflects the idea that one’s population could best be protected by leaving it vulnerable so long as the other side faced comparable vulnerabilities. In short: Whoever shoots first, dies second.”
If Wheeler’s claim is accurate (or the perception of it is even accurate) then another Osama strike on American soil would result in the nuclear destruction of Mecca. In effect, America would not be responsible for the destruction of the Muslim holy city…bin Laden would be. Bin Laden (and by extension) the strident Whabbists would/could/should become the pariah of Islam.
"Israel … recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt's Damoclean Sword," notes Wheeler. If Israel took out the Aswan Dam all of Egypt would have to move to the third floor. “Once the Israelis made this clear to the Egyptians,” Wheeler writes, “the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone." If anyone doubts Israel has the stones to blow the Aswan Dam they are not among Egyptian strategists.
Wheeler claims The buzz of the bin Laden’s ‘Sword of Damocles’ (Mecca option) floating around the Beltway is growing. He says neo-cons ‘tease’ liberals by tangentially or obliquely articulating the unspeakable. It must be kinda like uttering the name ‘Voldemort’ at Hogwarts.
In 1993 bin Laden told ABC America was “a paper tiger”. After Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993 Osama concluded America had no stomach for casualties. He assumed if he were to bloody Americans they’d run home with their tails between their legs.
Once upon a time me may have been right. However, not today since the ‘Rise of the Vulcans’.
The destruction of New York City or Washington D.C. would be epic. However (to Muslims), it fades to the significance of a small yellow hole in a Montana snow bank compared with the elimination of Mecca. “…Do you feel luck punk?”
Geoff Metcalf
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Ellie