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Soon we should be seeing people strapping bombs to themselves and blowing themselves up at your local McDonalds.

Difference is that most Israelis are armed, unlike most Americans. The bombings start when Americans start carrying.

"Difference is that most Israelis are armed, unlike most Americans. The bombings start when Americans start carrying."

Unfortunately, your probably right.... oh and we should be carrying already....

It'll never happen, but it's past time for the governors of Virginia and Maryland (both democrats BTW) to call up the citizen militia. I know Virginia has a provision for this, but am not sure about Maryland.

In Israel, if packages are left on the street or in a McDonalds, they immediately evacuate the area. We don't (yet).

Why would any Islamofascist need to blow himself up, when he can just leave a package and be 10 miles away when the restaurant goes boom?

Difference is that most Israelis are armed, unlike most Americans. The bombings start when Americans start carrying

But in the case of bombs, the remains could perhaps be used to identify the perp. And then a clear target for our vengenance could be established. The sniper style attacks deny us that clear focus of our anger. There are people who insist it must be Islamic terrorists (quite possible, due to the consistency of this attack with the previously known strategy of al Qaeda as discovered from captured materials). There are just as many people (moreso, in fact, if the majority of people believe as the so-called "experts" in the media) who insist it is a white male anglo-saxon beer-drinking NRA member with an evil assault weapon who plays video games and uses ozone-destroying chemicals in his gas-guzzling SUV which he recently traded in for a white van.

The fact is, we simply don't know. There is little evidence for either extreme (since there is little evidence at all), and the evidence that is available is being horribly misinterpreted by so-called "experts" in the media that are clueless. Some claim that the Tarot card indicates a lone nut, and that a Muslim would never use the phrase "I am God" (of course, I would probably believe that too if I hadn't heard Muslims say those very same words before) or use Tarot cards (where the "experts" got that opinion, I have no clue). Others claim that terrorists always take credit for their actions (these poor souls are lost in the 1970s, and somehow seem to be unaware that the face of international terrorism has changed dramatically since then, let alone the fact that al Qaeda hasn't taken credit for any of their actions yet, not even 9/11).

The fact that there is an al Qaeda cell near where these events happened, that several members of those cells are currently missing, and that a variant of this strategy shows up in al Qaeda training manuals suggests to me that it very easily could be Islamic terrorism. That this started happening right as al Qaeda made announcements of new offensive operations increases my suspicions. But since the al Qaeda manuals also mentioned targets that aren't being hit (like golf courses), there is still a bit of doubt in my mind.

Conversely, there are no shortage of mentally deranged individuals in the United States (a glance at certain members of Congress and those who elect them pretty much proves that postulate). Some have suggested that this is a military sniper. If it is (the evation techniques suggest someone with such training), it almost certainly isn't a United States military sniper (whose rifles are zeroed for 300 meters and who are capable of consistently making shots at that range. Plus, if it was a US sniper the round being used would almost certainly be 7.62 instead of 5.56). It might be someone with European military training, however, where standards of marksmanship are less demanding.

I would almost prefer a suicide bomber. While the damage might be greater, at least we would have the knowledge that the bomber would not escape justice.