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Originally Posted by DtheP47
A tiny corner of Cuba that is forever USA beckons young Tsarnaev I reckon Dr E with as much scopolamine as he can drink prior to bit of water-boarding  .... |
I think Gitmo is out of the question right now ... it's under the microscope, and the gun, big time. He probably won't get any farther than Langley. Also, seems like the "public safety exemption" is being seriously questioned. Obviously, the ACLU is not happy with it; and they are being joined by many in the US legal community. (Expect the ususal remarks from our fav tory parrot, with, of course, the obliga-tory comments about Blair's old lady
... Oh, and there will be some sort of conspiracy theory argument thrown up
)
I do see problems with the messages sent out by the response of law enforcement ... and the whole media thing in general. If I were a terrorist ... I do have the beard, but, unfortunately, not the energy and the interest
... I would be more than happy to see how much can be accomplished by so little (I'm not in any way attempting to trivialize the deaths and the injuries ... just talking of "scale") Two men ... well, a man and a teen shut down an urban area of over one million souls. Not a bad return on their investment. I expect to see more of these attacks.
It's difficult to draw positives from this cowardly act without seeming compassionless; but it has to be done. Lessons have to be learned, action undertaken. We can draw comfort from the fact that such actions are becoming harder and harder to commit. Increasingly, for the perps, there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Maybe we can look for more co-operation between the U.S. and Russia, which also has had a few problems with muslims in the Caucasus. Perhaps, most importantly, the West, in fact all civilized nations, will realize that there is a war going on, and that militant Islam has to be challenged wherever it appears. No more fear about being labelled a "rascist" or an "islamophobe" just because one denounces acts of terror, attacks on freedom of speech, the dehumanization of more than 50% of the world's population, the barbaric acts of a savage Sharia law ... well, you get the picture.