denial . His unassailable human rights credentials did n’t mean much when the media decided to go into attack mode . “ Liberals have sided with the ruling classes and resist anyone pointing out the truth . ”
False alarms are so common that I actually suspect the system would fail to respond to a real Russian launch . I just ca n’t imagine Bushes , Clintons , or Barack Obama retaliating while there ’s even a glimmer of doubt about an attack . My guess is that they would all decide to risk waiting to be sure an attack was underway , that it was n’t a false alarm or cyberattack , instead of hastily opting for certain nuclear holocaustlife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents. Given what we know about human beings and confirmation bias , launch under attack is probably less dangerous than just pointless . The problem , though , is what happens in a crisis .
A terrorist would have needed the code or a jackhammer to access the bomb itself . Even if it was only the last , or next to last , line of defense , it still worked . Another day without a nuclear holocaustlife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents. Who ’s complaining ? The other way to look at it is to see that the security failures were not independent .
leader , says , “ Somebody lied to you about successful and spontaneous non - violent revolution , that thing does n’t exist in the world . ” Today , almost seven years after the Cairo speech , President Obama has destroyed Libya , oversaw the division of Sudan , is seeking to dismember Syria , continues to bomb Yemen and Somalia , and is still sending fresh US boots on the ground to Iraq . Libya is now destroyed and its residents consider themselves the victims of a holocaustlife.die.deathcausedbyviolentevents. And I agree with them . On a recent trip , I witnessed two Sudanese women , one from Khartoum , the other from the new state of South Sudan , crying over what had happened to their country in 2011 on President Obama ’s watch .