Thursday, May 15, 2014

Some Lousy Anti-Zombie Internet Video?

You wonder why I question whether our military did what it could to react to the 11 SEP 12 Benghazi attacks with all the assets it had in nearby Europe?

Yeah. This April 2011 CONOP 8888 contingency plan is hilarious:

The U.S. military has always been the one place in government with a plan, forever in preparation mode and ready to yank a blueprint off the shelf for almost any contingency. Need a response for a Russian nuclear missile launch? Check. Have to rescue a U.S. ambassador kidnapped by drug lords? Yup, check, got that covered. How about a detailed strategy for surviving a zombie apocalypse? As it turns out, check.

Incredibly, the Defense Department has a response if zombies attacked and the armed forces had to eradicate flesh-eating walkers in order to "preserve the sanctity of human life" among all the "non-zombie humans."

Yeah, pity we didn't have a plan for rescuing a US ambassador attacked by jihadis. No check, there.

But Zombies? You bet.

And remember that on September 10, 2012, I wrote that our country's leadership was so not at war that they had to conjure up a zombie attack as a reason to prepare for a disaster of some type.

If only they could think of some type of murderous, nutball threat to kill us in our homes?

But no, we needed a zombie threat to ponder what we'd do.

To be fair, there is no Council on Zombie American Relations (CZAR) to raise a stink over such plans. But that's a whole other area of non-serious response to deadly threats, no?

I fear this attitude is the underlying cause of why we didn't react with an entire European Command nearby.