Would our Constitution survive a terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction attack? One former general doesn’t think so.
NewsMax reports that General Tommy Franks says that “if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.”
General Franks, who lead the U.S.’s liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq, stated his view in an interview contained in the December issue of Cigar Afficionado.
Franks said that “if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”
I find it very scary that a former high ranking U.S. General would make such a statement. Is that which he states we cherish most that vulnerable?
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