Hard to find anyone online who is simply glad the Times Square car bomb didn't go off. Everyone seems too busy prematurely blaming "Muslims" so they can then blame Obama for being 'soft on terrorism'. What sad times we are living in. Do you think:
A It's al Qaeda?
B It's left wing wackos?
C It's teabaggers?
D I'm just glad hundreds of people didn't die?
Check 'D' and consider yourself sane.
While on the subject of wingnuts trying to portray Obama as some kind of hapless stooge in the 'war on terror', The Velvet Straitjacket makes a good point that more Obama Derangement Syndrome victims should be made aware of:
We’ve killed or captured more terrorist leaders under Obama’s 1st year than we did in the last year of Bush. We’ve had more ‘drone-launched missile strikes’ in President Obama’s 1st year than in Bush’s last 3 years. We are spending more money to “expand secretive Special Operations units, deploy more unmanned aerial drones” , but somehow it’s not good enough because President Obama doesn’t torture.
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On 9/11 I lived close enough to New York City to watch the Trade Center burn in the distance. Cities like New York City and London and Paris will forever be targets for whackos. One of these days, something very bad is going to happen in one of those places.........that's one of the reasons why I moved south five years ago.
ReplyDeleteI kinda disagree. I lived in London for a while including times back in the 90s when the IRA were loosing off bombs all over the place. People who actually lived in London, like New Yorkers, were more irritated by the inconveniences caused rather than scared by what might happen. I remember hearing the Docklands bomb go off one day and the only reaction was 'WTF was that noise? IRA? Oh...'
ReplyDeleteObviously this isn't to belittle the horrific sh*t that can and does happen. But I can't really see anything catastrophic happening in the future because terrorists know (better than the scared folks out of town) that city people just get on with their lives whatever happens. London, New York and anywhere else can't be terrorized into a standstill.
And, given the time and resources available, don't you think the terrorists would have done something more spectacular than 9-11 by now if they saw anything to gain by it?