Waht do you suppose the American response will be to a Beslan-style incident? Glen Beck has been making a pretty good case for the real possibiity for that occurrance.
Well, let me simply say that they wholly underestimate the response. They may want all out war between the Islam and the West, but they have no idea of what they are asking for. It will be the end game of WWII all over again where we sanitize them to the point that they beg us to stop and where we only shall stop when there is no more extreme Islam left on the face of the earth (here or abroad...and it is liable to get very ugly here)...and no one who would dare support it. Like it was with the Nazis and Imperial Japanese after WW II.
We should already recognize that this is the nature of the conflict and prosecute it accordingly without having to suffer such a horrific attack. But I fear, that with the pandering, mealy mouthed, abetting, power hungry politicians of all stripes and the segment of the public who have been corrupted by a thirst of power or a place at the public largess trough, that that is what it will tragically and horrifically take to bring us to our senses as a whole.
Should it occur, then IMHO, the blood will rest primarily on the terrorists hands, but will also scondarily rest on the people who ignored the issue and used it for their own political or ideological gain instead of addressing it.
Those are my thoughts.
For one, this idea that we "lock down" the schools when anything happens strikes me as ill-conceived. Throw the kids out the windows and tell them to run like hell in every different direction. Also, arm whoever of the school staff has enough common sense to be safe with a weapon (if there is any such creature left in the publik skewls).