It seems this week the NY Times is really putting out information on how much the Obama administration is like the Bush administration. Today's piece is on
cyber warfare against Iran
From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program.
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet.
A good commenter pointed out the obvious problem:
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An article in the NY Times one year ago:
"Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War"
By David Sanger and Elisabeth Bumiller
Published: May 31, 2011
WASHINGTON — "The Pentagon, trying to create a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks on the United States, plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack from a foreign nation can be considered an act of war that may result in a military response."
Yup. So if Iran were to Cyber Attack the US, it is an act of war worthy of a military response but if the US does so to Iran and they retaliate militarily, Iran is the bad guy. I'm sure such logic works well for Americans, even the so called "pro black" ones who up until 2008 had a problem with such things. Don't expect a peep from most of them now. They'll be too busy talking junk about Booker, West and Smiley.
