Does the Pentagon have the right weapons to fight off an alien invasion?

Outstanding number 817 in my series of Questions to Which the Answer is No. Asked by Foreign Policy. Thanks to Ian Leslie, author of the outstanding Marbury blog and the outstanding Born Liars book.

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• robertinjapan

  What,you mean from the Royal Mounties? or from Mexico? sounds like a very controversial question. Did it ever perhaps occur that Aliens  might not want to invade the pentagon. They might perhaps prefer a different shape to invade, say like a triangle or rectangle. Maybe even a tubular shape who knows?

• Karl_Marx

  If you knew what secret weapons they possess, you would have to be silenced.

• Guest

  It rather depends on the type of alien, doesn’t it? An influx of vampires might be repelled by old-fashioned garlic hung around the Pentagon windows, holy water liberally sprinkled around the grounds, and crucifixes issued to key personnel.

  Did the Pentagon have the right strategy to combat human insurgents in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion? Did either Dubya or the Straight Kinda guy trouble to ask whether Dick Cheney’s Office of Special Plans (chortle, snigger) had any sort of strategy, other than a wing and a prayer, post-Mission Accomplished? Two more questions, the answer to which…

• porkfright

  Well it seems possible they might have DEW [Directed Energy Weapons] as in your strange photo, and may even have used them. Go figure. My money’s on the Klingons.

• sheffieldutd

  Thanks to Tory Bliar they have the legislation and lack of cojones to extradite MacKinnon.

• Kugelschreiber

  They didn’t in War of the Worlds did they?  Nothing would work, NOTHING.

  Until our bacteria got them 

• Kugelschreiber

  Maybe we could disarm aliens with our disarming, worldly charm?

• will

  So is that the plan? Launch Rentool from a cannon?