Posted on 01/24/2010 1:04:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I hope we are not giving them any ideas they didn’t already have.
Do that to a half-dozen schools scattered around the country, and the next day and for the foreseeable future every school in the country would be deserted.
Furthermore, probably half the national workforce would be staying home with them.
THAT would have an adverse effect on commerce.
They wanted an large-scale military response from US. This was supposed to provoke pious Muslims into overthrowing the governments of pro-Western countries like Saudi Arabia for tolerating us Evil Crusaders. Then Al Qaeda would re-establish the Caliphate.
They got their massive military response. The rest didn’t go so well.
Al Qaeda will be back after they’ve figured out what went wrong and revised their plans.
And, IMHO, there is nothing that the Department of Homeland Security can do about it (or would do about it if they could - can’t go around offending Muslims can we?).
The other attacks we’ve seen are mostly just cases of “Sudden Jihad Syndrome.”
bttt
Let's see...
Cellfone? Wallet? Keys? Check.
Sidearm? Check.
Extra mag(s)? Check.
Surefire? Check.
Camera? Check. Gotta get me a newer fone.
Body armor. Nah... I'll risk it today.*
Sure is a lot of stuff to carry. I have to remember to thank someday the bright minds who've brought our nation to this juncture.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Dude that's just simply bizarre.
This is the exact (and I mean exact) self-check I do every single time I leave the house. The only thing different is that I also include my Oakleys, because without them, my eyes will explode from the FL sun.
You're either taking the long drive from your 20 to look in my window or, more likely, a friend who thinks like I do.
Good read - made a BIG impression on me because I’ve been to the place that was used for the setting of the terrorist attack in the book .....
The terrorists started by bombing our headquarters at Rhein Main. Our defenses were lax and they took advantage of it. A female member of the terrorist group lured a young airman from a bar, slit his throat and stole his ID. They modified the ID by pasting a new picture over his and relaminating it. They then loaded the airman's car with 80 lbs of high explosives, used his modified ID to get on base, and parked the car in front of the headquarters building. It blew up as we were all arriving for work.
This sparked a crackdown on base entry procedures. The terrorists then shifted their target to less hardened targets. They blew up the train tracks for the American troop train that went from Hanover to Berlin. They set firebombs in trucks parked at an offbase fuel storage depot. When the US hardened these targets, they went after GIs in bars and on the roads between the off base housing areas and the base.
As we tighten security on the airlines, they're figuring out new ways to kill large amounts of us. Our defenses are reactive, not proactive and they can always figure out a new target. They want mass casualties and big headlines. Any place where they can kill a lot of people or cause a major disruption is a potential target. Sports stadiums, Malls, Tunnels, Power Grids, Train tracks, water treatment facilities, large office buildings, etc. Whenever we concentrate our defenses in one area, they shift to a weaker area.
They're looking at nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, bombs, firearms, poisons, etc.
72 hour E&E kit always at hand - check.
Here in S.Florida, they keep building strip malls, and then they sit idle with no tenants.
If they want, they can come here, blow these empty shells up,(and themselves with them!) let them sink back into the Everglades, and become natural again.
Help discharge some of that sexual-jihad frustration and make everybody happier. :-)
Why the limit on the bag?
The end of the Victorian era in England was also one of the safest, too. Practically everyone had a small pistol in their pocket for protection. as a result, criminals were extremely careful or extremely dead.
What makes it even more scary is that there are a limited number of public access points. The mall cops on their Segways are less then worthless.
Great memory magellan. I had forgotten about that attack.
The mall near my home( about thirty country road miles away) is darned near a hollow shell and the company that owns the place filed bankruptcy earlier this year. I say if they consider us the great satan then maybe Nevada or the casinos would be a better target but the security is very good compared to malls.
Just killing ONE American is one too many. These asshats should be in worse camps than the docile japanese were placed during the 40's..maybe we could trade for Gilead Shalit( improve relations with Israel) and get those three kids/hostages out of Iran...damned terrorists.
Pray for safety and sending all this muslim PC/CAIR/ Islam=religion cult of Peace pieces crud OUT OF AMERICA! Or start having the nasty cultists that have even attempted to kill hanged, drawn and quartered
I have often opined that, if I was a terroist, I would blow up bombs at Walmarts or malls or whatever on “Black Friday” after Thanksgiving.
You have crowds and it would destroy the shopping season, devastating the American retail economy that depends on the Christmas season to be profitable.
The primary reason I chose my children’s school was for its orthodox catholicism. I have to say, though, after what happened at Beslan, the fact it was small and not located in an obvious school building was a definite plus.
I disagree.
Yes, it is an obvious target and quite unguarded, but I think that they know that such an attack would change our war posture in an instant. The retaliation against anything and everyone muslim would be devastating. Even the liberals wouldn’t tolerate attacks on children, after all, everything they do is for the children.
The fanatical Muslims who would carry out such an attack are not concerned with such things.
Same here.........daily routine now. No thanks to a few decades of silly sh*t from polidiots and their handlers.
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