I was in every major conflict and most minor ones in one way or another from 1968 to 2000. I have a son in Navy Air.

America is everywhere all the time, and has the capability to cause harm everywhere, but we are mostly the good guys. Believe it or not.

I checked around with some buddies who know more about undersea than I and they couldn’t come up with much of a reason to cut a cable, in fact several cables, except in war with some country, and I damn well don’t think Iraq or Afghanistan insurgents were hurt much by these cables being cut.

So you tell me a good reason why the Navy would cut a bunch of cables in the last month, and I will shut up.

Don’t just say they did it because they could. That flies like a sack of bricks.

However, you have to admit, we have a rogue executive branch, very little political opposition, and internationally very little credibility these days, and it’s not for no reason. We attacked and invaded a country for no good reason, (although we gave a LOT of false ones) and people have a tendency to not like that very much. Including us, previously in our history.

Navy: They have ships and subs, and the cables are underwater.

There are people everywhere that wish to disrupt the world economy and the relationships of the world.

Those people that demonstrate and blow up things at the big world financial meetings. Those G7 or G8 type things.

Radical Islam types that want to separate the Muslim world from the West, and sure don’t like the internet.

Maybe criminals that are trying to blackmail the international cable companies.

You don’t need a sub to break a cable but if you want one and have the money, you can pick up an old sub on the munitions black market. They have used them to smuggle drugs into America.

Why is America always the villain in people’s eyes?

When I was on active duty, sometimes little things would go to hell snowballing up into some big mess. I remember hearing the Captain telling an Admiral once something like “shit happens at sea.”

http://technologyinwartime.org/node/4

Cyber terrorism was quite front and center this morning in the intelligence hearing and will be focused on some more in the next couple of weeks.

http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/221875

Now I AM confused!!!