Posted on 06/29/2016 7:46:07 AM PDT by mandaladon
All three cable networks dedicated droves of airtime Tuesday evening to the Istanbul terrorist attack and on two occasions, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews wondered “how much brains does it take” for someone to become a suicide bomber and why do terror attacks “always seem to involve bombing” instead of something else.
Matthews was speaking to an assembled panel of terrorism experts about five minutes into the program when he cited recent terror attacks ranging from French train in August 2015 to Tuesday’s bombings in Istanbul and appropriately wondered if it means there’s a pattern to the string of Islamic terror attacks.
From there, however, Matthews blurted out this question: “How much brains does it take to pack yourself up with TNT and go running into a crowd and blowing yourself up? What do you mean, sophistication?”
Risk management analyst Anthony Roman explained to Matthews that most attacks are “coordinated” and “planned,” but Matthews interjected to wonder if suicide was considered “brave” to which Roman responded that he certainly wouldn’t want to do it (but would be in the eyes or radical extremists).
A few minutes later, Matthews introduced an utterly bizarre line of questioning about why terrorists turn to bombs to carry out their heinous acts over any other weapon [emphasis mine]: This was a combination, apparently, we don't have all the information on the — at least 28 dead, maybe more. A.P. is reporting many more. At least 100 injured badly, probably....Bombing. What's bombing and terrorism have to do cause it always seems to involve bombing. Is that because it’s one sure way to blow yourself up, certainly, and the suicide bomb strapped to the body seems to be part of this cult of suicide, of martyrdom, if you will, by their standards.
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Terrorists initially would smear themselves in peanut butter in hopes of triggering fatal peanut allergies, but it didn’t seem to work so well. They’re trying bombs, guns, and airplanes now.
Have you got any o’ them superautomaticlistic, eight guage revolting rifles with the self reloading clips that hold six hundred bullets and fire six times every time you fart?
And yes, the preparations are planned with sophistication and much forethought.
Motor-Mouth Matthews asks some of the dumbest questions I ever hear from hosts on panel shows....a lot of them he blurts out just to hear the sound of his own beloved voice.
Leni
Because bombs make more of a statement than a bouquet of pansies.
truly diabolical, like sharks with fricken lasers.
That super congressman that was on the teevee with the 700 round per minute data should be able to tell you where to buy them — probably at the Trump Casino in the Vatican.
I am specially fond of those fully automatic 8 gauges myself so let me know if you find a two for one sale.
It isn't so much that they always use bombs, but that when they shoot up a lot of people, the Democrats blame the guns instead of the terrorists. So, even if 90% of terrorist acts are committed with guns, the liberals only count the 10% that were committed with a bomb.
If they could think of a way to do it, I'm sure that the Democrats would find a way to blame terrorist bombings on anything but the terrorists. Just like they blamed the Benghazi attack not on terrorism, but on an obscure youtube movie. If there is a way to blame an act on anyone other than the perpetrator, the Dems find it.
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