I just heard on the news that one of the U.S.'s military staging areas in Kuwait was hit by a “terror” attack, injuring at least 10 U.S. soldiers.
A terror attack?! Come on! We’re dropping bombs on Iraq, and when Iraq sneaks into one of our camps and plants a bomb of their own, suddenly Iraq is guilty of a “terror” attack?!?!?
It’s called a COMMANDO HIT-AND-RUN RAID, you fear-mongering fuckheads! It’s a legitimate tactic during wartime! :mad: We launced commando hit-and-run raids ourselves during World War II!! What, is every attack perpetrated by somebody else considered a “terrorist” action nowadays? I suppose you chowderheads think that the Iraqi soldiers shooting at the invading U.S. troops are “terrorists” too!
Wake up, you sleaze-faced jingo-spewing slimebuckets! The world does not revolve around the fucking U.S. of A.!!
It’s also not clear that this was done by the Iraqis. All that’s known is that a bunch of US soldiers in a nation with whom we are at peace were attacked. If it were done by Iraqi commandos, then it’s be part and parcel of being in a war. If it were instead done by, say, a Saudi Arabian, then it would, indeed, be a terrorist attack.
Oh, yes, how clumsy of me! I should have known that a nation under attack was completely forbidden to sneak behind enemy lines.
(Assuming this was, indeed, perpetrated by Iraq. If it was perpetrated by somebody else, then I agree with Miller, it should be considered a terrorist attack. But at this stage, it’s too freakin’ early to call it a terrorist attack. An attack on U.S. troops behind the lines, sure. But not until we know that it wasn’t Iraq that did this should we start calling it a terrorist attack.)
Well, yeah! Of course! Well … okay … “panicky herd animals” might be a better epithet. And, to be honest, I don’t know if the “Americans” were the ones responsible for calling it a “terror” attack, or whether that was something a flag-waving CNN reporter dreamed up.
Now that they’ve had a chance to assess the situation, though, they’ve switched to calling it a “grenade attack, with the possibility of terrorism.” That I’ll buy.
It’s not terrorism to sneak into a military base and throw grenades during wartime. It’s a commando raid, as the OP said.
I disagree with “:mad:” or any excessive capitalization or bolding. During wartime we don’t want to escalate the rhetorical hostilities. If we did this might happen*.
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NBC news is reporting that a U.S. soldier is being held in connection with the attack. Apparently we was reported missing shortly after the attack happened. According to sources a criminal investigation has been opened regarding the incident.
