[thoughtomator]

If something like this happens we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims stance so fast, they'll be wearing garters in Mecca.

[Metternich]

If something like this happens we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims stance so fast, they'll be wearing garters in Mecca.

Highly unlikely.

[Revel]

How about not letting muslim piolots not born in the US fly in the US.

[gcruse]

If something like this happens we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims
stance so fast, they'll be wearing garters in Mecca.

The shame is that until something like this DOES happen,
we will continue patting down old ladies and hotties while
the sheiks sashay right on board.

[Hank Kerchief]

If something like this happens...

It did!

... we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims stance so fast ...

We didn't! And "we" won't next time either. If 9/11 didn't wake the sheeple up, nothing will. Those who already know the score must take their own action. If they wait for the government to do it, it won't happen. It is time to speak out, without apology.

Islam is the most repressive, violent, and backward ideology in the world, it will continue to opress its women and prevent all cultural and economic development, wherever it dominates, and threaten the world with vicious pointless violence.

Islam is the stupidist most repressive retrograde ideology on the planet. It is unkind to pretend it is anything else, and if people really cared about Arabs, and all others (most of whom are not Arabs) who have been deceived by this horrid life-destroying religion, they would be doing everything they could to see it wiped off the earth. To wish anything less for the world, and all those millions enslaved by Islam, is a hatred for humanity.

If every rational, intelligent, decent person would stop being afraid of speaking the truth, and repudiate Islam for the evil and life destroying religion it is, the terrorist threat would be over. When decent people continue to apologize for those who embrace the idiocy that is called Islam, they are working for their own enslavement and destruction.

Hank

[garjog]

The article seems to minimize the affects of a dirty bomb: "Experts said a potent dirty bomb could spread radioactive material for a half-mile in all directions. People in the fallout zone would be bombarded with radiation levels that they would not otherwise be exposed to from natural sources for a full year."

But, I did some research on dirty bombs and there is no way of knowing the extent of harm without knowing the quality of the radioactive material. If it is low grade, then the health affects are small. But, they could use stuff that is so hot that the area would have to be abandoned for DECADES.

Tin foil alert: are they trying to prepare us not to panic for what they are pretty sure is going to happen? Why else would the government source make a dirty bomb attack sound so trivial?

[kinghorse]

Muslims in the USA will be just as disrupted and scared as non Muslims. I imagine the emphasis will be on making sure all Americans are abiding by whatever rules are dictated in the aftermath of a large scale WMD attack.

[festus]

Dream on...... If this happens we will be so worried that our response not look like its tareting muslim pilots we'll train 1/2 of Iraq and Afghanistan and Iran to fly planes and then set quotas for all US airlines forcing them to fly the things.

Don't get me wrong. I like your idea and it is the only one that would work. Its just lately I really doubt we'll wind up doing the right thing......

[MissAmericanPie]

Don't bet on that. Just because the god of diversity has gotten a taste for innocent blood, doesn't mean the politicians are ready to let go of a good thing. They will make sure fat citizens are sacrificed regularly and often on his altar as long as they have the force behind them to do so and the sheep continue to go baaa.

Islam is one diversity too far, it is the 180 of civilized behaviour and civilized society. But don't count on the Fed to get rid of the problem they created. They will continue to call those opposed racists, refuse to call the problem a problem, and will happily have the army blow your head off in the defense of Islamics should riots insue.

[MississippiMan]

If something like this happens we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims stance so fast, they'll be wearing garters in Mecca.

What on Earth would make you believe something so silly? We'll do no such thing. Why would we do then what we didn't do after 9/11? In case you've forgotten, we changed the name of our operation from Infinite Justice to Enduring Freedom solely because the name of our war offended someone.

Bet you a buck right now that if we get hit again and lose 5000 innocent Americans, Bush will increase his Islam-is-a-peaceful-religion rhetoric, not decrease it. I don't know if you've flown since 9/11 or not, but in a nutshell our airport security all too often consists of pulling elderly white and black Americans out of line to have their feet examined and their bags rifled through, while Middle Eastern males walk on board without the slightest inconvenience.

If you think our government, including Bush, is going to abandon political correctness in the interest of our security, you're sadly mistaken. And even if our leaders were willing, the government is such a bloated, slow-crawling bureaucratic monster that it would still be at a huge disadvantage.

MM

[bk1000]

"If something like this happens we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims stance so fast, they'll be wearing garters in Mecca." Nah, we'll just have to take more sensitivity classes in an effort to discover why we so offend these peaceful people.

[Ima Lurker]

I wish I could believe that, but I don't.

[battousai]

"If something like this happens we will drop our no-bias-against-Muslims stance so fast, they'll be wearing garters in Mecca."

Call me sceptical, but I'll believe it when I see it, it should have happened after 9/11 but it hasn't.

[hershey]

They're going to have to profile air crews. Probably already are, just not talking publically. Hitlery and the Dwarves might complain.