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Posted by: amanfromMars | 06/27/10 | 1:44 pm |

"* What threat are we not paying enough attention to? “The whole area of cyber security. We are now in a world in which cyber warfare is very real. [Ugh  -- ed.] It could threaten our grid system. It could threaten our financial system. It could paralyze this country, and I think that’s an area we have to pay a lot more attention to.”"
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The truth is even starker than that, for it is most definitely certain not a case of there not being enough attention paid to cyber security, but a case of there not being the leadership intelligence to ensure an overwhelming cyber space control, which will easily do at least all that Leon has highlighted.
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In fact, expertise in that virtual field, renders all traditional explosive weaponry and nuclear ordnance redundant and useless, which makes it a priceless new Super Power Control System which can strike out of nowhere tangible, or identifiable, in an instant.
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And please, to imagine that such expertise doesn't exist, is the height of both arrogant and ignorant folly, and to deal with it at all effectively does require a major fundamental rethink about absolutely virtually everything which then must be acted upon to change everything. To do anything less will have one fail to stop any number of chosen catastrophes/silent sorties against any number of vital assets.
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The expression ...... "Like shooting fish in a barrel" ...... would be most appropriate in such conditions.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/cia-chief-irans-bomb-two-years-away-sanctions-wont-work/
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"So far, counterinsurgency has succeeded only in creating a never-ending demand for the primary product supplied by the military: perpetual war. There is a reason that President Obama studiously avoids using the word "victory" when he talks about Afghanistan. Winning, it would seem, is not really possible. Not even with Stanley McChrystal in charge." .... http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236?RS_show_page=5

Which is just how the war machine and military industrial complexes likes it, although it is a dinosaur and a liability of a methodology for obscene and perverse prosperity nowadays for all it delivers are countless invisible enemies around from everywhere.