In response to: “Vladimir Putin may have done us a big favor”
Dear Editor,
Mr. Samuelson’s ‘silver lining’ of Russia’s hacking of our election
is demands top attention of the next Congress and Administration. Trump appears to be moving in the wrong
direction of turning our nation inward while upping our military ante
abroad. This will only exacerbate the threats
to both our privacy and our security.
These threats will grow exponentially – along with the exponential
advancements in cyber, bio, nano and robotics technology.
Mr. Samuelson appropriately agreed with AEI’s assessment that
cyber threats should join with the “three great strategic shifts in military
history” (sea, air, space) and didn’t understand why their list “omitted” “nuclear
power”. But both missed the greatest shift (equal to
or greater than cyber) of biological
weapons. Cyber technology greatly
enhanced bio-weapon's capacity to target genetic profiles of individuals or
ethnic groups with unprecedented lethality globally. Imagine a biological ‘Stuxnet’ virus. In the late 1990s I was researching “Camel
Pox”. A virus most Arabs were immune to
but Iraq was considering for bioweapon development. Now recall the four word summary of the 9-11 Commission
“our failure of imagination”.
Our greatest threat isn’t “the nature of the Internet” or the
nature of DNA. It’s our mental nature to
believe imaginary concepts like ‘independence” and “nationality”. Our life is NOT independent from other
nations, the environment, or the seven billion souls we share this planet
with. Things change. Some change exponentially. Our government was flat lined but now may
change radically in the wrong direction.
Once we fully recognize our irreversible interdependence and
adjust our government unite the world with “self-evident” “truths” in our Declaration
of Independence, and then enforce ‘life, liberty” and “justice for all”, we
will for the first time, be able to maximize both our freedoms and our
security.
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