I wouldnt shoot a CIA convoy since they are mostly civil servants and their bosses are safely hidden away back home… but if Rummy came down the road… oh my … what a temptation. I would shoot him without blinking in the name of world peace.
You share some fine company, with that of Palestinian ragamuffins.
It’s also refreshing to see London_Calling, vanilla, and Rashak Mani drop their pretenses and call for the death of US officials and government employees. Not that I agree with them, of course, but at least they are being forthright with their (rather sick) views.
no no no.
Not death for anyone.
unemployment, maybe.
I said only Rummy should be killed... thats for the good of the USA also in fact. You disagree that his death would be beneficial ?I only agreed with the last sentence. the U.N. thse people are not.
so there.
Not that I’d advocate the murder of anyone at the CIA or the UN, but in fairness to the jingoism that’s brewing here, I should point out that the UN does not have a track record of overthrowing democratically-elected presidents of foreign countries, whereas the CIA does.
Where that fits in on the Cosmic Scale of Morality is for you to decide.
Hmmm retaliate. You mean in some other way than continuing to finance their occupation? One might ask who did the retaliation.
Dude STOP TALKING! You made an asanine statement. Don’t make yourself look like even more of a moron by trying to rationalize it.
Is there something about Islamic culture that believes that every problem can be solved by shooting and blowing stuff up?
In all fairness, the UN doesn’t have a track record of overthrowing dictators either.
Do you often post your CIA revenge fantasies to Great Debates threads? Did you note the part that this was a) a private security company, and b) escorting diplomatic officials to interview potential Fulbright Scholars in the Palestinian territories? Do you have anything besides insinuations that this was CIA? And for someone who claims to care so much about the Palestinians, I’d think you’d be able to see that this will not turn out well for them and will lead to further US involvement, not less.
No, you have to remember: If the US or Israel takes action, and the Palestinians respond inappropriately, the US or Israel is responsible. If, however, the Palestinians take action and the US (or Israel) responds, the US (or Israel) is still responsible.
Huh? What contradictions?
I was asking myself that same question about American culture, during this “damn fool war”.
Were you an Iraqi war supporter msmith537?
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday condemned the attack as an “awful crime” and said he ordered an investigation.
I bet there’s some real intensive investigative work going on.
That line was a snippet from a newsarticle, which I forgot to indicate. . .
While military intervention is pretty much out of the question, I would think the Palestinian organizations (i.e., Hamas, al Aqsa Martyrs, Hizbollah) have all brought themselves under the magnifying glass (as in ants under a large lens in direct sunlight).
These violent idiots previously had the speck of intelligence not to attack US personnel and interests. That line has been crossed and now there is a distinct justification for direct action (covert or overt) against those responsible. While Israel remained their sole target, these matters were fought by proxy. The gloves have come off and I have little confidence that Palestinian terrorist organizations will be happy with the outcome. I foresee greater intelligence distribution, an increased degree of asset (read satellite and con-intel) sharing in addition to more restrictive measures taken against Palestinian charities remotely connected with terrorism.
In short, way to go idiots. You have awoken the sleeping dragon while continuing to remain crunchy and tasting good with ketchup.
There is an obvious question. Just who ought we to go retribute against? How about an air strike on the Gaza Strip, just sort of willy-nilly blow up everything in the general area. There is an Islamic congregation about 80 miles down the road–maybe one of the NG units that hasn’t been mobilized should go over there and shoot the place up? Maybe we should try to capture or kill BenLaden? Maybe we should invade some country with no obvious connection to the thing?
It’s a lot easier to blather about military retaliation than to do anything. I doubt is a national temper tantrum is going to help much.
Odd you should bring up Hezbollah and claim they never crossed the line to attack US personnel and its interests. They and others did that very thing during the 80s, remember the truck bomb in Lebanon, just as the most egregious example? The (alleged) US reaction hardly helped the US, from here:
London_Calling, I really don’t get how you’ve automatically decided that a convoy of diplomats and their security guards amount to the CIA, or for that matter why they deserve to be bombed even if they were.
Why is there a US convoy in Gaza in the first place? I say we high-tail it out of there and never return, never, never, never again. Problem solved.
Thank you for the reminder, Dissonance. Methinks there may be a bit more reaction this time around.
Not much point to military action. The Israelis can say the same thing to us that we said to them in 1991 when Scuds were falling on them.
There isn’t anything we can do there that they aren’t already doing.