Via Huffington Post, Rick Santorum quoted in today's
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
Santorum, who trails Casey, the state treasurer, in several recent public opinion polls, acknowledged that his support of an unpopular war will cost him votes.
"This war is more important than this Senate seat," he said.
Santorum said he supported going to war because he was "concerned about a rise of radical Islam as a trigger point to a larger war that, if we did not stop now, could threaten the very existence of freedom everywhere."
"I think we're facing the greatest threat this country has ever faced," he said.
I beg to differ...
Looking back to, oh, say around 1961, some 20 years before I was even born, seems just a trifle more frightening and threatening to me. The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, "Tsar Bomba" (with video):
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/...
http://video.google.com/...
And North Korea's nuclear test? To put it in some perspective, according to globalsecurity.org, the DPRK test had a yield equivalent to 550 tons of TNT.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/...
By way of comparison, the Trinity explosion (the first nuclear weapon), and the Hiroshima bomb had yields in the range of 10-15 kilotons or about 30 times as large as the reported North Korean test, and Tsar Bomba had a yield of about 50 megatons or about 100,000 times the size of the North Korean test.
To me, it seems that back then was much scarier/menacing/threatening/frightening than what we face today, and somehow we managed to survive without scrapping the Bill of Rights and habeus corpus and without torturing. Today's so-called "leaders" ought to be ashamed.