U.S. Security Guarantees To Others Make Us Less Safe

The U.S. security guarantees to countries in the Middle East made Americans less safe. They are at the basis of the 9/11 attacks. They and other interventions are still making us less safe.

Korea is a second example. “Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the Congressional Task Force on National and Homeland Security and chief of staff of the Congressional EMP [Electromagnetic Pulse] Commission” warned that “a ‘surprise’ attack could paralyze the U.S. electrical grid and critical civilian infrastructure, resulting in the death of large numbers of Americans.” He’s talking about North Korea’s two satellites igniting a bomb that would knock out our electrical grid.

Why would they do this? In order to defend against an attack by the U.S. against them. In Pry’s words “Because if we did get an international crisis where we were gearing up to intervene on our security guarantees it [an EMP attack] would be an enormous shock for people.”

I am not endorsing the particular alarm being sounded by Pry. I have no expertise on that. I am quoting him because his words directly connect the possibility of an attack on America with “gearing up to intervene on our security guarantees”. In other words, he is pinpointing cause and effect. The U.S. makes a security guarantee to some foreign country. If it has to pay off on such a pact, America becomes vulnerable to counter-attack. We become a target because of our earlier intervention.

The security guarantees of the U.S. government, which include all sorts of allies, alliances, pacts and joint operations throughout the world, do not protect us. Just the opposite.

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