Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[carl]

Slap and David:

Did you guys ever get to work a protest like that? I never did. Life ain't fair.

If the photos were representative of the women taking part in those protests, I noticed that it was mostly just women who looked good topless that participated. Female vanity trumps conviction I guess...and I approve.

[slapout9]

Slap and David:

Did you guys ever get to work a protest like that? I never did. Life ain't fair.

If the photos were representative of the women taking part in those protests, I noticed that it was mostly just women who looked good topless that participated. Female vanity trumps conviction I guess...and I approve.

carl, no I never did get to do anything like that.

But I am deadly serious about this being an excellent way to fight the Jihad, it is an excellent example of what I mean by SBW (slapout based warfare, oooops! I mean systems based warfare) This group of ladies is attacking the entire system, they are attacking the fundamental belief systems that binds the whole enemy system together.

It SUBVERTS it destroys loyalty to the primary systems of belief and that is what we have to do at the highest level if we ever want to win. We should make a million copies of this film and distribute it world wide. The President should invite them to the WH and give the medal of freedom to each of these brave soldiers and then he should disband the department of homeland silliness and give the entire budget to this Joan Allah Brigade. They would win in 6 months!

[davidbfpo]

Slap and David: Did you guys ever get to work a protest like that? I never did. Life ain't fair. If the photos were representative of the women taking part in those protests, I noticed that it was mostly just women who looked good topless that participated. Female vanity trumps conviction I guess...and I approve.

Carl,

No, a few naked people encountered usually drunk or in stress. A friend did put his helmet across an infamous streaker's chest many years ago:http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xht...erica-roe_sexy

[Dayuhan]

Ongoing discussion of what the Russians did or didn't provide. Have to wonder if the omissions and failures to respond were deliberate or simply a lethargic bureaucracy dealing with what would have seemed a fairly minor matter:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...856008018.html

I also wonder how people would have reacted prior to the bombings if they'd discovered that US agencies were investigating people purely on the basis of information provided by the Russians. Russian actions in Chechnya have been perceived in the US as fairly heavy handed, with some reason; would Americans have been entirely happy to see what could have been perceived as US support for Russian pursuit of individuals supporting Chechen nationalist causes?

[davidbfpo]

A somewhat different viewpoint, by a American anthropology academic:http://www.opendemocracy.net/david-w...rathon-bombing

A couple of passages:

Lost in the move to connect Islam and the Tsarnaev’s Chechen heritage with terrorism is the role of schools and communities in the United States in addressing the alienation that led the brothers to committing such acts of violence.

All too easily forgotten:

There were, after all, three days of the city functioning between the Monday bombing and the Friday lockdown.

[davidbfpo]

An interesting article, based on interviewing Boston Police's Bomb Squad; with some details I have not seen before, notably the devices found after the initial attack:http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/201...omb-squad/all/