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Hortensis

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3. THAT will create terrorists. Killing Bhag's likely to trigger action
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:55 AM
Oct 2019

in some prone to extremist violence, and his name will be used to invoke hatred against the U.S.

But it's a big difference.

Just Trump/America's betrayal of the Kurds alone, who belong to a number of religions, will create the need to kill future Bhagdadis. As for having our big name on all the problems that result from further destablizing a ME already threatened by several giant existential realities, I shudder.

Push come to shove, we could take a lot of 9/11s, but something like an attack on our national energy grid would kill at worst by far most of us, at best many millions. Just think, water pumps ultimately failing in most municipalities -- sooner than later in many, most "just-in-time" deliveries to markets halted, no ability to stop fires that sweep across cities...

Smirking Putin almost certainly already has the ability to launch attacks of that type and scope.

Btw, the Democratic Party headed by Hillary planned to have half a billion solar cells on America's homes and businesses by the end of her first term. That was not just battling climate change and sustainable energy, but part of a national security plan to make our energy grids far less vulnerable to attack, with most of our nation broken up into small areas able to supply enough power to sustain on their own.

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