Cuban Missile Crisis Deja Vu

I was 12 years old in 1962 when the U.S. and the Soviet Union squared off over Soviet IRBMs based in Cuba. At the peak of the crisis the U.S. was fully mobilized and I remember asking my dad in the backyard one night if we were going to war. He was a WWII vet and his eyes were troubled when he replied that he really didn't know. Fortunately, Khrushchev blinked and the crisis receded as the missies were removed. Solomon said there is nothing really new under the sun and regarding foreign missiles in this hemisphere again, he may well be right.

Reports are beginning to bubble up to the surface that the Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is cooperating with the Iranians to base their IRBMs in Venezuela. The article below is by the U.S. Attorney for New York and he thinks it is certainly within the realm of possibility. From there, they could hit a good portion of the U.S. and if they complete their nuclear weapon development, large mushroom clouds could accompany their use.

What is particularly scary is that we are exceptionally vulnerable to EMP - Electro Magnetic Pulse. Basically, two nuclear warheads going off about 300 miles up over the center of the country would fry all our computer chips and life as we know it would grind to a halt.There would be no cars, phones, computers, electricity, television, mass scale food production, medicines, etc. The U.S. military has equipment that is "hardened" against this threat, but that does the rest of us little good. The death projections are really scary from an EMP hit and Ahmadinejad would revel in doing Allah's will. Hugo would laugh too. Pearl Harbor is a  historical fact. Let's not repeat history ourselves by ignoring these cockroaches.

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