Biological Warfare Defenses: Basically Nonexistent?

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/06/19 17:59:18

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When we are
talking about vulnerability to mass terrorism, biological warfare is at the top
of the list. There are no operational defenses. The public does not know this.
The military branches take no responsibility to defend the homeland from this.
The senior officers don't think it's worth any money from their budgets.

So, Congress started a civilian alert system a decade ago. It is barely more than a preliminary blueprint. The trouble is, there is a huge cost overrun associated with the program. The estimate is now pushing $6 billion. Congress may not appropriate the funds.

Will the system work? Could it work in time to get a million people out of any of the 30 cities? How about 8 million people. Of course not.

Would senior officials in any city announce the threat in time to get 80% of the people out before the anthrax killed them? Obviously not. There is no way to get them out. The highways out would clog up.

The USA projects its power all over the world. Yet, when it comes to the nation’s #1 military threat, there is no defense.

RogerCoppock 2012/06/19 18:34:43 (edited)

The chief biological warfare defense for America is the 'Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,' AKA Obamacare. Without the PPACA, a disease designed by our country's enemies could easily spread among the poor who have little access to doctors. Later, with that foothold among the poor in our country, the enemy's biological weapon could attack the rest of us.

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~ The Rebel ~ 2012/06/19 18:00:27

Biological warfare is suitable to non-state terrorist groups. It is cheap. It is effective. It is potentially devastating. It could bring down any nation’s banking system. It could shut down cities. It would break the economy. It would produce terror on a scale never before seen.

The Defense Department is supposed to defend the country, not police the world. Until the Pentagon’s budget reflects the priority of defense against non-state biological warfare, there is no Defense Department. There is only the War Department.

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