Trey Smith
...American Exceptionalism, courtesy of Peter Van Buren in The Ultimate No-Fly List: Obama's Secrecy Problem.
It is no wonder that many people across the planet do not like us or, at least, do not like our government. Our government plays by its own rules and those rules ALWAYS benefit us at the expense of others.
Exhibit #1OK class, let's review. If a nation we don't like launches a cyber-attack against the US, we can declare war and no one should fault us for this. We, on the other hand, are not bound by these terms. We can launch a cyber-attack against any other nation in the world whenever we damn well feel like it and any talk of war is a nonstarter.
In May 2011 the Pentagon declared that another country’s cyber-attacks -- computer sabotage, against the U.S. -- could be considered an “act of war.”
Exhibit #2
Then, one morning in 2012 readers of the New York Times woke up to headlines announcing that the Stuxnet worm had been dispatched into Iran’s nuclear facilities to shut down its computer-controlled centrifuges (essential to nuclear fuel processing) by order of President Obama and executed by the US and Israel. The info had been leaked to the paper by anonymous “high ranking officials.” In other words, the speculation about Stuxnet was at an end. It was an act of war ordered by the president alone.
It is no wonder that many people across the planet do not like us or, at least, do not like our government. Our government plays by its own rules and those rules ALWAYS benefit us at the expense of others.
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