Cancelling New Year's Eve celebrations is letting the terrorists win. I understand public officials wanting to maintain public safety but they should not be deterred with planned New Year's activities. Let the citizens make the choice whether they will stay home or not.
I wonder if this could be the work of those dreaded Baptists?
Having the fox guard the henhouse.
What do the terrorists value? Their people. Their religionists. Gee, where are they hidden? Out in open sight, free to cheer the bombings of their idiot enemies who are too PC (read stupid) to retaliate against their ridiculously vulnerable butts.
The terrorists want to play the game in exactly the way our moronic asses are responding to it. They hide amongst civilians, and make us tiptoe through their supportive hordes to find exactly and only the triggermen.
You blow away what they value - and they instantly will lose, since we are in a far better position to do that to them, than they are to us. One only has to look at Dresden, Tokyo, Berlin, Nagasaki and Hiroshima for reminders that we are capable of this, and even the dimmest of liberals would perceive this. If they still can't recognize it, just remind them that a Democrat President ordered all of them.
But unfortunately, the stupid and historically challenged rule the day - only until the carnage is brought directly upon the selfish and delusionally secure pinhead segment of the population that consistently advocates appeasement at the cost of others. Once it hits them, they will stupidly want to kill just about everybody - without regard to efficacy nor justice. And that's probably the way it's going to run.
In a truly just world - they would be the only ones on our side to die, for their pig-ignorant and wilfully selfish stupidity.
"New Year's Eve parties were just kicking off when the bombs began going off around sundown at 6 p.m. The coordinated attacks are unprecedented in Bangkok. However, political feelings have run high for more than a year, and there have been reports of political violence aimed against the military junta which ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra on Sept 19 - primarily the suspected burning of schools. In addition, some intelligence sources had suggested in the past two weeks that Islamist extremists leading the southern insurgency might try to spread their attacks to the capital. They have never operated out of the deep South. The Bangkok bombings, however, bore little resemblance to bomb attacks in the South, which usually involve improvised explosive devices (IEDs) copied from the Iraq model, and set off by mobile phones, and vehicle bombs, especially in motorcycles. Except for the insurgency in the four southernmost provinces, there has been no deadly political violence in Thailand for more than 14 years, when a popular protest overthrew the last military government. In that case, the violence and deaths were caused by the military government and armed forces. Martial law was lifted in Bangkok and surrounding provinces just a month ago, but the military is authorised to act when necessary. The coup passed its 100-day anniversary on Dec 28. The junta leader and army commander, Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin, is currently out of Thailand, on the Haj in Saudi Arabia, and will not return until Thursday."