The Oil on Water Question

07-02-10

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(continued from page 4) whole. Americans need to become as wise as the Chinese, for whom (as a matter of their written language at least) every “crisis” contains both a “danger” and an “opportunity”. Revitalizing the Militia in the Gulf States is the best choice for turning this opportunity to good account. Anyone with an IQ one point higher than his age can understand why the DHS will not solve the present set of problems, any more than it solved the far-less-extensive and far-less consequential set of problems that arose out of Katrina. Today’s problems will not be solved—at least in time—by electing new Members to Congress in November of this year, either, because: (i) the composition of Congress cannot be expected to change sufficiently to bring that institution to its full constitutional senses; and even if that did happen, (ii) America would still be saddled with Mr. Obama, constitutionally illiterate and indecisive in his own right but nonetheless capable of vetoing legislation as the ostensible President until 2013. And today’s problems certainly will not and can not be solved by “secession” (or some other pie-in-the-sky political pipedream), because, if the affected States were to “secede” in the context of an economic collapse such as the oil eruption threatens, they could hardly make “secession” work (assuming for purposes of argument that it were otherwise workable). These problems can, however, be solved by the people of the Gulf States themselves, because those people are on the scene; fully appreciate what the problems are; know why they need and how they want to solve those problems; are aware of the individuals and organizations amongst themselves who and which have the knowledge, skills, and experience to tackle the job; and above all else have the very strongest incentives for solving the problems quickly, efficiently, and permanently—because they will have to live with the solutions, good or ill. So, the sooner the Militia are revitalized in the Gulf States, the sooner the people can set to work, and the sooner the work will be done.
	This, however, is not the course of action that the deep thinkers among the “homeland-security” hierarchy are now contemplating. Quite the contrary. Very recently, the United States Northern Command published a report by one Major Dale Greer, entitled “Units make history with Air Force’s first homeland defense ORI” (3 June 2010, originally to be found at ). This “operational readiness inspection” (ORI), held at Gulfport, Mississippi, from 16 through 23 May last, “‘has validated a unit’s wartime capability to defend the homeland by fighting an enemy on U.S. soil’”, the report quoted Colonel Greg Nelson as concluding. “As with traditional ORIs”, the report explained, “this one tested the ability of each unit to mobilize Airmen and equipment, fly to a remote site, operate in a hostile environment, defend against enemy attacks, and reploy back home”—except that “[u]nlike traditional ORIs, in this one the participants were tasked with supporting civil authorities while fighting an unconventional foe in the United States. * * * The ORI scenario that played out in Mississippi required” Air Force personnel “to launch theater aircraft and medical evacuation sorties across the Gulf Coast	region, supporting U.S. Northern Command missions and civil authorities, while foiling multiple attacks by well-organized terrorists.” “‘[T]his [ORI] marked the first time that any Air Force unit has been wartime validated in support of the security and defense of the United States of America [on domestic territory]. That’s huge,’ Nelson said. “Col[onel] Dan Dagher * * * agreed. ‘ * * * If an attack on the homeland happens, we will be the first responders. Americans can sleep better knowing that the [Air Force] can provide defense support to civil authorities in the United States, and that the very survival of thousands of . . . Americans rests on our now-tested ability to immediately respond and perform mass-casualty medical evacuations after a chemical attack.’” Those who do not discount the merciful intervention of Providence in human affairs should be willing to accept the possibility that the simultaneity of this ORI and the BP oil disaster—each of which just happens to involve a kind of “chemical attack” “across the Gulf Coast region” that is simulated or (continued on page 6)