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Lessons of Boston: What the fanatics took away
The New York Post ^ | April 23, 2013 | Ralph Peters

Posted on 04/23/2013 2:45:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The superb work of our law-enforcement officials in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing ignited a blaze of self-congratulation that obscured the event’s implications.

Yeah, we killed one fanatic and nabbed the other. But our dysfunctional system couldn’t prevent this latest Boston Massacre.

That carnage was a dirt-cheap terrorist triumph. Fanatics will take its lessons to their shriveled jihadi hearts:

Lesson No. 1: Two amateur terrorists can paralyze a major American city for days. The Tsarnaev punks generated global headlines, ran up millions in government expenses, punished a major metro-area economy and disrupted society. And now we’ve got a costly civilian trial to come for the surviving brother — with more headlines to inspire copycats.

We’re relieved that the two young terrorists were “brought to justice” and delude ourselves that we “won.” Uh-uh. At the cost of two expendable young thugs, a few guns and a couple of homemade bombs, radical Islam generated a bloodbath that created genuine terror on our soil.

Al Qaeda and its ilk have long used suicide bombers and doomed assassins to rupture societies in the Middle East, killing tens of thousands of Muslims (a fact we fail to exploit in our lame “information campaigns”). Now the Islamists are in the export business. Expect more of these low-cost, high-return missions within our borders.

Lesson No. 2: The best weapons against targets in the US are disaffected legal immigrants or radicalized native-born converts to jihad.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: boston; jihad; terrorism; wot
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To: Former Proud Canadian
This is the big takeaway. America will rue the response of authorities when they shut down the city.

Agreed. Boston/Massachusetts just guaranteed this is going to happen again somewhere else.

21 posted on 04/23/2013 4:17:22 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The second you alter your behavior or allow your government to do it for you, it signals a victory for the terrorists after a terrorist attack.

"Endeavour to persevere".

22 posted on 04/23/2013 4:17:40 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Travis McGee

That kind of chit is going to get people to start shooting back.


23 posted on 04/23/2013 4:18:32 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: Romulus
The terrorists are in charge. Those pressure cooker freelancers? A bunch of amateurs.

I do agree.
24 posted on 04/23/2013 4:56:01 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Lesson No. 1: Two amateur terrorists can paralyze a major American city for days."

The two who shut down Boston were not the Tsarnaevs, but Patrick and Menino. They are worse than amateur terrorists; they are professional politicians, and pose a much more direct and imminent threat to our way of life than a couple of crockpot wielding muzzies.

25 posted on 04/23/2013 5:06:10 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
we “won.”

How can there ever be total victory over man's inhumanity to man as long as man rules this orb? We can only be satisfied with small wins over evil, we are incapable of ending it.

26 posted on 04/23/2013 5:11:52 PM PDT by Alaska Wolf (I)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The superb work of our law-enforcement officials in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing ignited a blaze of self-congratulation that obscured the event’s implications.

Lost me right there. What was "superb" about any of the law enforcement activities?

27 posted on 04/23/2013 5:24:14 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: AmusedBystander

I guess he was being polite.


28 posted on 04/23/2013 5:26:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: AmusedBystander

no dogs were shot...


29 posted on 04/23/2013 5:27:31 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th
no dogs were shot...

That we know of.

And the cops were able to keep the Dunkin Donuts open during the lockdown, so they got that going for them.

30 posted on 04/23/2013 5:33:05 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If you’re a highly educated, ambitious West European who wants to become an American, your chances are near zero. If you’re a radical America-hater from a hostile region, all you have to do is shout that you’re a political refugee and we’ll give you residency and benefits.

If we still had a GOP instead of a RINO party, they would scream from every roof top about that. But no, as usual the RINOs will cower into a fetal position while the Treason party lets even more of these mutts into the country. A few years ago I drove a taxi in New York city in between jobs, and it is absolutely mind boggling the amount of potential jihadists driving cabs. I would talk to them everyday while waiting for a cab, everything is the fault of the Jews, America is the great killer. Saying all this crap while wearing full Islamic garb. How the F did they get into the country?

31 posted on 04/28/2013 6:16:43 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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