Maggie's Farm

But did he ever return ,no her never returned and his fate is still unlearned..you many ride forever....well not according to this.

The Coming Urban Terror
John Robb

Systems disruption, networked gangs, and bioweapons

For the first time in history, announced researchers this May, a majority of the world’s population is living in urban environments. Cities—efficient hubs connecting international flows of people, energy, communications, and capital—are thriving in our global economy as never before. However, the same factors that make cities hubs of globalization also make them vulnerable to small-group terror and violence.

Over the last few years, small groups’ ability to conduct terrorism has shown radical improvements in productivity—their capacity to inflict economic, physical, and moral damage. These groups, motivated by everything from gang membership to religious extremism, have taken advantage of easy access to our global superinfrastructure, revenues from growing illicit commercial flows, and ubiquitously available new technologies to cross the threshold necessary to become terrible threats. September 11, 2001, marked their arrival at that threshold.

Unfortunately, the improvements in lethality that we have already seen are just the beginning. The arc of productivity growth that lets small groups terrorize at ever-higher levels of death and disruption stretches as far as the eye can see. Eventually, one man may even be able to wield the destructive power that only nation-states possess today. It is a perverse twist of history that this new threat arrives at the same moment that wars between states are receding into the past. Thanks to global interdependence, state-against-state warfare is far less likely than it used to be, and viable only against disconnected or powerless states. But the underlying processes of globalization have made us exceedingly vulnerable to nonstate enemies. The mechanisms of power and control that states once exerted will continue to weaken as global interconnectivity increases. Small groups of terrorists can already attack deep within any state, riding on the highways of interconnectivity, unconcerned about our porous borders and our nation-state militaries. These terrorists’ likeliest point of origin, and their likeliest destination, is the city.

the article: http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_urban_terrorism.html

O/T for those interested in witnessing a magnum coup de gras roll back to the thread where I engage Tom from Stamford in a colloquy reguarding the Civil War....

It is one helluva finish. His last statement and my answer.

Screwed and tattooed the man, ah, if I was in prison or something..ok bad analogy. But do take a look. If you have a heart you will feel pity for the man.

The thread title is "Adopted Son"


Keep the children away from the monitor. The thrashing is terrible yet satisfying.

At the end of the war R.E. Lee was asked who his best general was. He replied, "A man I never met, Nathan Bedford Forrest" ...Beauregard was an honor, but Bedford Forrest would have been gretaer one.

I highly recommend "That Devil Forrest" by John Allan Wyeth.

As a side note it's also interesting to know that after the war whenever Lee was asked to participate in a parade involving military men he ALWAYS made a point of marching out of step.

But Tom from Stamford not acknowledging Forrest McDonald as a scholar, well my answer was enough to lay that question to rest. His books are great and very readble.

Forrest McDonald's appointment as the 1987 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, the highest scholarly recognition offered annually by the U.S. government through its National Endowment for the Humanities