Doesn't look homosexual or psycho to me.
Looks like a sorta handsome floppy kid...I do not see dead eyes and trust me...I know them when i see them.
The older one looks more menacing.
This is most troubling to me ...how could a boy of 19 rationalize placing a bomb next to a child knowing it would kill that child
I was a very bad 19 year and capable of mayhem but never ever something like that.
I think Jihad runs in the family and they had to have help and guidance....just examine both have Islamist names
The younger one seems to have been more adjusted to US life
but the older one had many gripes about US culture...some that anyone would observe about our sloven fat Wal Mart America and trashy oversexed culture...our enemy always sees our cultural rot as our weakness...and they are right
anyhow...I find all of this far far more unsettling than less acclimated jihadis coming here to create mayhem
I believe there are others like this...
and we are awash with soft targets and someone more canny and disciplined or better trained could be far more effective and get away with it...even in the camera age
and then just blend back in and go back to college and smoking pot and partying and tweeting all the while smug in some jihadi self satisfaction
what will be most likely to get folks like that caught will be their need to get recognition from those who inspire them for their actions here
how many immigrants like this are in our midst now?
I guess I'm saying of course it's Islam but we make ourselves so vulnerable in obvious ways but also in more insidious ways
Our inner degradation of what we once were has made us an object of derision with little respect(fear) from our enemies
they see us as a land of fat lazy people with fatherless kids addicted to reality shows and urban black areas awash in crime little different than third world
oversexed trashy women and effete men with homosexuals at their zenith
is it any wonder we look like such inviting targets?
a POTUS who apologizes to the world constantly, bows to Islam, and blames success
a culture where we make every tragedy about us and clamour for understanding of our enemies...Christian goggledegook about love the man who just blew up your eight year old to bits....the very one who seconds before hugged you as you finished the race..and immediate closure for any tragedy
we are so pitifully fractured and weak
I am older...WWII was explained to me as a boy from those who lived it...it was about determination and resolve...steely quiet resolve
not like that silly breast beating spectacle from Democrat voters in Boston last night..whose patriotism will fade next ward election
I tell you...we are simply not the nation we once were....I blame media, academia and immigration...legal and illegal
I can promise anyone...the road forth will be hard to navigate and I am not the least bit hopeful that what will replace what we had will be better
and we have the potential to shed more blood right here...than ever before in mankind...islam is actually more the kindling than the fire
Juxtapose how we react and live with terrorism in comparison with how Israel does it..do they blame themselves...do they seek closure and understanding..lol
His acquaintances said he was a pothead. Pot is a hallucinogenic that causes delusional thinking. I'm so tired of people characterizing pot as harmless. It's not harmless. Look at these eyes:
Combine pot with jihadi influences, and you've got a dangerous mix in the mind of a impressionable young man.
I still want more details about the mother’s arrest, if she was deported, and how that timeline ties in with the older brother’s return from Russia. Was she prosecuted and deported? Was this the ‘stresser’ which caused the older brother to abort possible terrorist training overseas and return to plant bombs near another location of the company that prosecuted his mother?
Good post wardaddy and straight from the heart. Of course what has happened to this country has many, many explanations - some obvious and some not so much. Prayer being removed from school, a culture of abortion, celebration of sodomy, the drug culture, the changes that have occurred with the economy and on and on.
One thing that occurred to me though - we abolished the draft back in the mid 70’s - right after the Vietnam war. So now we’re about 40 years into that experiment. On the one hand - giving military training to those that would use that training for nefarious means - could be thought of as a bad idea.
But on the other hand - I suspect universal military service had many positive effects on society. It probably taught many lessons and had perhaps a leveling effect on society. It probably is one of many possible factors that has gotten us to this pretty miserable state that we’re now in.