Prediction: L.A. Will Be Nuked One Day

Somehow a dinner discussion came to this tonight. Is it not a match made in heaven? Can you think of anything more appropriate for one another. I'm not asking folks to think of it in moral or rational terms - this is clearly a horrific idea to contemplate. But think of it from a perspective of a master terrorist, the next Mohammed Atta, someone with ideology, cleverness, capability, and an understanding of the 20th century.

We all know 9/11 was a stroke of genius for an Islamic fascist. They explained perfectly in a succinct statement exactly what they think of us. They knew hitting the Trade Centers would install fear into our hearts and anger into our heads, for a couple of reasons 1) The trade centers had been a target before and we still couldn't protect them 2) The trade centers symbolized the "might" of American power but could easily be destroyed.

Islamic Fascists watch our films. The 9/11 commission report talks about how KSM had the hijackers studying airplane hijackings from Hollywood movies. They pay attention to what they think is important to us. Right behind New York is obviously Los Angeles - especially by Hollywood standards.

I've talked about it with a few people and there seems to be a consensus - what would you bomb in L.A.? Seriously....sure, you could hit Disneyland or Hollywood Blvd, or the 405 Freeway, or the LA Airport. But would that cause mass chaos and destruction? Clearly not. A master terrorist would never go backwards. After 9/11, a master terrorist would have to do something more spectacular, and nothing could be more spectacular than a nuke. And there would be no better target for a nuke than Los Angeles, to poke a gigantic hole in "facade" of America.

Los Angeles is unlike any city in America - any in the world for that matter. It was developed around freeways. It is one of the only post-modern cities, fragmented, broken up into sections, and as my friend from college describes it: a series of towns nudged right against one another. There is no "central" Los Angeles. Downtown is a shithole, there is Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, East LA, Downtown, all the beach towns, these are all "parts" of L.A. It is decentralized, spread out. It was created during the same era at the atomic bomb. They both epitomize post-war America and the post modern era.

The only thing that can destroy LA is the nuclear bomb.

Al Queda may be evil, but they are not irrational. They know what they are doing. They believe virtue to be more important than freedom and believe freedom leads to hedonism and evil. What city epotimizes what Al Queda hates about America more than L.A.?

What Al Queda has either consciously realized or lucked into by accident, is an odd allience with self-hating Americans - those who believe America is wrong and decadent and evil. The odd thing is they are partially right, we are decadent, materialistic, hedonistic, selfish, but they think the solution is orgiastic violence as opposed to intelligent criticism. But the extreme self hatred, America-hatred, LA-hatred, can easily manifest itself in violence - see Falling Down, an example of the "fet-up" white American male or the Columbine murders, all examples of unleashed violence as expression versus a reaction or self-protection.

What better target of this than LA, a city where a high percentage of people hate the city? What better weapon than an a-bomb?

I say these things not because I want it to happen or necessarily think that it will happen, but that it is logical course for a master terrorist to take, given the world we live in. That is what scares me and why I am considering moving.