Time to Brace for the Next 9/11

The biggest threat to America isn’t terrorism. According to the Daily Beast it’s the wrath of Mother Nature.

Paul Stockton, the Pentagon’s point man for security in the homeland, plans for the kind of apocalyptic events that could forever change the lives of millions of Americans. Assistant Secretary of Defense Stockton, a lifelong academic who speaks passionate jargon, calls them “complex catastrophes” with “cascading effects,” and, like Sept. 11, 2001, these new tragedies could have gut--wrenching social and political consequences. Yet the horrors he’s preparing for are far bigger than 9/11: tens of thousands of people killed, the economy devastated, national security gravely compromised. And the terrorist who will be responsible for these atrocities is Mother Nature. Stockton’s yardstick for cataclysms is not “worse than 9/11,” it is “disasters even more severe than Hurricane Katrina.”

They’re coming. Of that, Stockton and other disaster-management specialists have little doubt….

Find out more at http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/04/time-to-brace-for-the-next-9-11.html