Posted on 09/04/2004 2:35:18 AM PDT by Cyclops08
Now we know that Al Queda is involved. We know this attack was mastermined by one of Ossama's top men.
----I think this attack was a test. It is a precursor of things to come.-----
Unlike gov't buildings there is a school on every corner, ---you can't protect them all!--- This action also puts the gov't on the spot. It demands total capitulation to the terrorists or the kids die. In other words this terror tactic FORCES the gov't to charge. In Russia the terrorists demanded not just the release of comrads in jail, but the complete withdrawal ot troops from Chechnya. If any gov't does that, Al Queda knows it now owns a puppet on a string.
By forcing the gov't to attack a school rigged with bombs, a great toll of human life is taken. The terrorists know they are not going to live thru this. BUT, this makes emotional parents blame the gov't, and NOT Al Queda for the carnage-or so they hope. I think the goal here is to weaken a gov't by evaporating the peoples trust in it ("why couldn't they save the kids?!").
Look at what the terrorists did. The kids were not allowed to eat or drink for three days. ---There was never any intention to let the kids live.--- This entire terror act was premeditated murder from minute one.
Its a No-Win scenerio. The World's horror makes this a rousing success for Al Queda. Because it cannot be defended against, you can expect to see this happen again, and again, and again. ---> BTW, notice the great silence from muslin clerics about this. There was no great cry from Saudi Arabia, or Jordan, or Eqypt to "Let the children go!" Islam IS the enemy...
This is yet another reason to vote for George W Bush. He will fight the terrorists, Kerry won't.
The "clerics" need to be held responsible for inciting the subhuman scum.
We have created Homeland Security and beefed up TSA (who still drags its feet and through bureaucratic stall tactics has still not armed our commercial pilots on people haulers and freight haulers)
Until we go after the ideological source of terror...their financing and their arms brokers...we will always have terrorists..and until we get rid of those training centers in our nation and control the borders and arm our pilots....we can also expect a few sucessfull attacks...
(which of course will buy us nothing more than very expensive...do nothing bureaucratic feet draggers and paper shufflers)
imo
This is not the beginning. This has been ongoing. Look back in History. We have to be one America to beat these low lifes that will kill us and their own children by making Martyrs out of them. I'm not being Political at all in this. You cannot beat people like this with the more the sensitive mr. kerry and his ambulance chasing wonder boy.
I think it most unlikely. If they were really thinking about timing, they would be aware that an attack like this as the time of the convention is only likely to stiffen resolve and therefore would play into the hands of Bush.
While many things in the world revolve around America, not quite everything does...
I disagree. This is related to Russia and the US. They are still operating in the mode odf Spain. They believe that if the can do something that will just indicate to us of what they may do to us that support for Bush will decrease.
I think this is an attempt to affect the polls coming out concerning the convention. Look at when the standoff ended. Al Q has a global strategy.
It is similar to what the Dems are doing now, trying to affect the polls between now and Monday.
I think many good people tend to forget the darker side of Human Nature. Here is a gentle reminder:
Not long ago, there was a civilized country that gave the world much culture and scientific attainment. They became infuriated about "an enemy within", and more than six million people were killed, for nothing much more than talking funny and running pawn shops.
No one is immune to this, especially where slaughter of innocents are concerned, no matter how well-meaning, or how Liberal.
Bluntly put, if these acts continue, there will certainly come a time when there are not going to be any Muslims, anywhere. It took only the flimsiest excuses for the Holocaust to happen.
There is nothing flimsy about 9-11 or this latest outrage. I am NOT talking about hate, but about something colder: The kind of grim determination a person feels who sees a cockroach and reaches for the spray can. It is not hatred, but simply the recognition that there is a somewhat disagreeable job to be done, then, onto the next thing-Mowing the lawn, and cleaning the carpets.
I'll bet the town and it's people are Christian.
I think this is not far from the truth. I truly believe America is filled with sleeper cells, waiting for the moment. I pray this is not the case. But we have no real way of knowing. They are waiting for the right moment. Common sense tells us that election time is a very vulnerable time.
It is important for Americas left to get their heads straight and join the ONE AMERICA for the fight. Support the Patriot Act. Support our president in war time. Support our troops. The enemy loves the fact that we are a politically divided nation. That is exactly what they want. And the LEFT plays right into their hands. United, we will stand. Divided, we may fall. My prayers go out to our president, our troops, their families and the families of those killed by acts of terrorism. God Bless America!
i STRONGLY agree.
Chechen separatists have been launching attacks on Russia for years, well before 9/11.
There is no doubt that they have support from al-Qa'eda, not least because they all fought together with the Mujahudeen in Afghanistan in the 80s. Consequently they are united in their hatred of Moscow, whether it is communist or not.
But this is the fourth siege of its kind to end in bloodshed. The primary objective of these terrorists is the independence of Chechnya.
Nonetheless attacks like these, especially when there are no American casualties, serve to bolster President Bush. It is not as though this was an attack on a country like Spain that had troops in Iraq.
There is something we can do. I believe that most men and women should take safety and self defense training, handgun training, and become capable of defending others.
We need to adopt more of a warrior mentality.
That plan - provided the armed adults have the training and will to IMMEDIATELY begin shooting (which is unlikely in our procedure-based, lawsuit happy modern socities)- would deal with the odd nutball or two. In this case, there were 20 to 30 terrorists armed with AK-47s, suicide belts, and bags of explosives. Essentially, it was a platoon assault. No reasonable school security force could or should be expected to deal with that.
Armed adults in every school may not fend off a military assault but undefended schools invite even a lone terrorist to murder at will.
Something is better than nothing. A lone, armed bank guard can be overwhelmed by a large armed force of bank robbers but the banks don't use an all or nothing approach and neither should our schools.
Well at least next year's Russian military budget is up 40%.
At the time of the Afghanistan war, the CIA was also funneling support to Islamic terrorists in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Western China. This was via the Saudis and Pakistan.
We're in deep trouble if our porous borders aren't closed tight.
A reassuring but unconvincing thought. How long has it been since Mohammed himself carried out his atrocities during his climb to power?
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