“Bring it on”, eh, Bricker?
I expect more from Blair and UK than a “cowboy.”
We shall see, regadless of our opinions.
Here’s hoping that there are no more blasts and that the G8 is not derailed and that Londoners and visitors alike are safe.
Thanks for the advice, TwistofFate, SisterCoyote. I have my wits about me, worry not. And I live in a safe neighbourhood. Then again, my university is in a safe neoghbourhood. Right next to one of the blasts.
I don’t pray either, also agnostic. And I’m not Muslim by birth; Druze. I was speaking as an Arab, and someone who grew up in Jordan with regular Koran classes at school. We were taught a good interpretation of Islam. None of that ‘kill the infidels’ horseshit. We were taught about people of the book, that deserve equal treatment. My Muslim friends would agree with every word I said, and would join me in one big FUCK YOU.
I wonder how someone could read ‘In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate’ at the beginning of every Sura and STILL want to randomly kill. Then again, what d’ya expect from organisations that fund godliness with heroin, kidnapping and extortion.
All friends accounted for now.
Of course they are. They would also claim credit for my dead dog had they know it was run over by a car last night.
What’s this even supposed to mean?
Are there examples of acts they’ve taken credit for that our intelligence says they didn’t do?
Multiple coordinated attacks seems to be their M.O.
I wouldn’t sneer at cowboys. Sometimes the cowboys are exactly what’s needed to stop the rustlers.
I certainly endorse your last thought. I hope for the safety and well-being of all Londoners, temporary or permanant, during this time.
While it likely is AQ in this case, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that a terrorist group might take credit for something it didn’t do. How many groups took credit for OK City when that happened?
I know that. They always step up on plane crashes, too. But I haven’t seen it from Al Qaeda.
As I recall, they didn’t take credit for the Egypt air flight, or the one that went down over long island months after 9/11.
You’re a goddamn fucking moron you know that?
Perhaps it’s time for US to rethink our our course of action, because if you haven’t noticed the terrorists seem to be winning these days.
Please explain to me how we are going to “eliminate” the terrorists, I could use a laugh after this horrible day in history.
The only problem is that after the cowboy stops the rustlers and gets back on his horse, the saddle bomb the other rustlers planted blows his balls off.
It’s also the M.O. of at least one other group. Imad Mugniyah, a high-ranking member of Hezbollah, helped AQ prepare for 9/11. It’s said that tightly coordinated, simulataneous attacks against different targets is his trademark and that he inspired the bombings in Kenya nad Madrid.
Posted too soon.
No vague shit, I want concrete specific details.
Here’s my plan.
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Get the fuck out of Iraq, and I mean literally fuck 'em, get out. It’s going to go bad anyway, we might as well free up our resources.
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Focus ALL our energy on getting that Osama asshole.
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Get this shit out of the media. Our mission should be to quietly fight this in the background, in the shadows. This means don’t fucking announce you’re going to mount a huge operation to take Falujjah in 48 hours. We’re totally telegraphing all our moves.
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Tell the masses that terrorism WILL NEVER GO AWAY, we can only hope to reduce it as much as possible. People have these insane expectations that we’re really going to eliminate this threat. This is unrealistic, and works against us.
I’ll think of more later
Just wanted to point out that nobody, abso-friggin-lutely nobody, wins. Everybody loses in these situations, and I think that is part of the terrorist mentality; “We’re miserable and hate everyone, so everyone should be miserable and hate everyone.”
They only win if we let them. No one can stop terrorism. Crazy dudes can mix up a cheap bomb in their kitchen sink. There will always BE crazy dudes. What we can do is stop terrorism from being heavily subsidized and organized by other nations. We can only appease the terrorists by killing all the Jews and ending Christianity, Democracy and the Western Way of life- we have to be brought down to the level of ignorance, hatred and poverty they have. So- getting out of Iraq won’t help. (Not that it’s a bad idea, I’ll grant you, but if anything, all it will do is encourage terrorism)
You’re correct, let me phrase it differently. They seem to be doing more damage to us, (psychologically, financially, etc) then we’re doing to them.
Granted, there’s questions about the Egypt Air crash. But the Queens crash was an ordinary accident - unless you want to argue that the NTSB fabricated evidence to hush up a terrorist attack.
I was just responding to the guest posting “of course al qaeda took credit for it. they’d take credit for running over my dog.”
As far as I know, that’s not AQ’s MO. I KNOW long island was an accident. You know long island was an accident. If Al Qaeda was as “attention hungry” as the guest was making them out to be, they still could have tried to take credit for it.
How widely do you read? Remember that ‘disaster, doom, and gloom’ sells better than good news.
We’re still not sure of the culprits - while it’s most likely Islamists, it could be some part of the IRA.
Anyway, we’re over the shock and we’re pissed off.
And we’re going to catch them.
Does anybody think the terrorists think we’ll say, “well what do you want us to do so you’ll stop”? I can only imagine if they study is closely enough to be able to get away with this shit, they also know pretty well how we will respond or react. They know full well that the US and UK would jut their chins and say “you won’t win.” So that must be what they want. Conflict, and division, and fear, and anger.
I’ve seen nothing to convince me that the outcome of the Spanish election was due to terrorism. If anything, it was another well-planned event because the terrorists new how it would be spun.
This is a bit of a hijack from the current discussion, but the most obnoxious thing right now is how the networks are focusing so much on economic impact. 40+ people are dead. What’s so important about economic impact?
I don’t know the 40 dead.
I do own stock in Lloyd’s of London (*).
It’s an issue that affects ME the NEWSREADER more directly than the dead. It’s not like reporting on the economic effect of it demeans the reporting on the loss of life.
It’s not like you’re going up to a widow of the bombing and telling her that her deceased husband owns you 40 quid.
Sometimes it seems like I’m the only person in the world able to take an antiseptic of tragic events that happen to people thousands of miles away.
(*) Illustrative purposes only. I don’t actually own stock in Lloyd’s.