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On The Eve Of Destruction?

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:45:15 AM
As Iran's role in Iraq becomes clearer, the Pentagon studies attack options. Meantime, the CIA reveals Syria was close to nuclear weapons capability last year. Is the next stage of the global war on terror imminent?

When the song was released in the mid-'60s it came off as pretentious and overblown, since the power of nuclear annihilation was limited to the two superpowers and a handful of other governments.

Today there's a real danger of that capability soon falling into the hands of terrorist groups via the Islamofascist regimes that serve as their enablers — in other words, people willing to blow up a city even if it means their own destruction, and even if it means a nuclear counterattack.

Nuclear deterrence worked during the Cold War, but when it comes to fanatics it's hard to see how deterrence would be possible.

Last year, Syria apparently was weeks away from operating a North Korean-built plutonium production plant near the Turkish border that could have produced up to two bombs in the first year of operation.

Israel attacked the facility last September. CIA director Michael Hayden told reporters this week that "in the course of a year after they got full up they would have produced enough plutonium for one or two weapons."

The risks of pre-emptive attack may be daunting.

But President Bush can't kick this can down the road to his successor, especially if that successor is one of the two Democratic candidates resolved to surrender in the Middle East.

The free world cannot be daunted in preventing the clear and present danger of nuclear terrorism. That means acting, and soon.



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All This And Tax, Too

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:38:12 AM
We tend to point out the many problems with the universal systems in Canada and Great Britain because those are the models the U.S. is encouraged to follow. But the misery isn't limited to those nations.

Americans have been led to believe that Sweden, a country with one of the longest-running universal health care systems, is a medical paradise, where everyone gets free first-class treatment and lives are long and prosperous. Not so.

The ugly secret of universal health care is rationing. Proponents act as if it won't happen under their plans. But it will. There is not an unlimited supply of health care, not in a fully private system, not in a fully public system, not in a mixed system.

The question, then, is: Who will mete out health care services? In a private system, rationing will be done by individuals. In a universal, single-payer system, it will be done by bureaucrats.




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We Need More Food And Fuel.

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:29:21 AM
The solution to high food and fuel prices is more food and more fuel. “The Hunger”
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Listen To The Media With Care

Posted by Always To The Right on Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:16:38 AM
"The media has never been about the truth or accuracy. They are totally agenda-oriented, and they always have been. Journalism attracts liberals because it is inexorably linked to government, and that's where liberals go."
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