Making History

[Mark A Becker]

Very good points Ray-

How true that we can be our own worst enemy.

B Sanders talks about investing a trillion $ in US infrastructure. A "T"rillion is an enormous number, but he is correct that these improvements need to be made.

Though I do not spend a lot of my time worrying about terrorists, I still believe that vigilance is prudence.

'nough said by me on this topic,
...Mark

"... I realized that we're just inept"

Yes, but then there are those moments when we're really, really good at developing new means of destruction, and how to use them.

I completely agree with your observation regarding microbes/bacteria/germs/bugs/whatever..

Native Americans were wiped out, partly by the invading Europeans' weapons, but mainly by their germs.  The first anthrax attacks post-9/11 were an indication that "terrorists" are aware of this weapon.  Ineptitude of execution allowed those probing attacks to be foiled--- for now.  

The possibility of such an attack, if planned better, scares the holy shit outta me. Consider the hysteria that broke out over ebola, and then consider the exponential effect of such outbreaks in the US.  You can bet yer ass that the psychos are studying this very hard, and we can only bank on ineptitude stalling them for so long...

The terrorists are small-time; no amount of psycho can ever hope to compete with our agribusiness/chemical company
recombinant-DNA pesticide/herbicide/food products or our pharmaceutical companies using similar technologies.

Or, for that matter, our auto driving abilities. In the time it's taken the terrorists to kill a few thousand of
us, we've killed (since 9/11/2001) 536,367 of ourselves in traffic accidents. If 10% of the money spent on
anti-terrorism had been put to something as mundane as improving traffic intersections, we'd have saved
about 60,000 lives. The terrorists are not the ones we should be worrying about.