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Our friend and fellow Gilford, NH blogger (and fill-in MTNP radio host), DCE at the WeekendPundit writes a thought-provoking future history essay.
A possible future newscast:
“It’s July 4th, 2036, a day of celebration and remembrance. We celebrate the 260th anniversary of the founding of the Republic. We also remember the 20th anniversary of the deadly attacks in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston that left 11 million dead and many times that wounded.”.“It was during the traditional Fourth of July fireworks in those cities that Al Qaeda struck our nation. In those cities, each a symbol of the American Revolution that brought us our freedoms, the Islamist terrorists unleashed the power of the nuclear weapons they’d smuggled into the US, detonating them at the height of the fireworks displays.”
Click here to read the rest. My question is whether the US could muster the response Chan describes.