Al Queda wants to blow us up
No shit Sherlock
Let's just start at the top.
Confidential government assessments say that Al Qaeda remains intent on attacking targets in the United States and that suicide bombings are clearly "a preferred method of attack among extremists" in the wake of last month's terror attacks in London.
First off, is this a news flash? Of course they still want to attack us, we're still killing people in Iraq. We're still running around the world telling everyone else what to do. We're still building our nuclear arsenal while telling everyone else they can't.
Now, if this assessment is confidental, where did some reporter get the information? Isn't it strange that this thing is confidental but still leaking certain parts of it? Am I just going all Alex Jones or does this smell an awful lot like the same crap they pulled during the campaign?
A second security bulletin also prepared after the London bombings warned that in addition to setting off bombs on trains and subways, Al Qaeda might seek to derail trains or crash a truck carrying flammable material into trains.
Like I said, if we put cops in the subways, they'll go blow up the mall. No matter what we do, they can still get us. I can't say it enough, no matter what we do, they can still get us. The only answer is to stop making them want to kill us.
And the International Association of Chiefs of Police, with 20,000 members worldwide, has issued new training guidelines to its members advising them to have officers shoot a suicide bomber in the head to avoid a life-threatening detonation.
The new guidelines, which were developed before the London bombings and first reported Thursday by The Washington Post, represent a more deadly posture in dealing with the threat of possible suicide bombers, said Joseph Estey, who is president of the chiefs' association and the police chief in Hartford, Vt.
"These are new circumstances for us to deal with, and this is an aggressive policy to respond to a narrow set of circumstances," Chief Estey said in an interview Thursday. If an officer believes he is confronting a suicide bomber who may be about to explode a bomb, he said, the new guidelines "call for a head shot, which unfortunately is the securest way of disabling someone who may have a suicide device and may try to detonate it."
Chief Estey acknowledged that the shooting death last month in a London subway of a Brazilian man, whom the police mistakenly thought was a suicide bomber, underscored the tragic possibilities if the police make the wrong decision.
For an officer to make a spot decision on whether someone is a would-be suicide bomber "is a real tough question, and there are situations where you're not sure," he said. "But when you're making those decisions on the fly, you have to have the greater public good in mind and try to save other people's lives."
That last statement causes me a lot of problems. Is our way of life now simply a numbers game? If 1 guy can harm two other people, do we just head shoot him in case he's a suicide bomber? Does a running man in a long coat = suicide bomber? This bothers me a lot but I don't have a good answer other than the one I already gave, to stop making them want to blow us up.
It's a scary world we live in. The problem is that there aren't really any good guys anymore.
Let's just start at the top.
Confidential government assessments say that Al Qaeda remains intent on attacking targets in the United States and that suicide bombings are clearly "a preferred method of attack among extremists" in the wake of last month's terror attacks in London.
First off, is this a news flash? Of course they still want to attack us, we're still killing people in Iraq. We're still running around the world telling everyone else what to do. We're still building our nuclear arsenal while telling everyone else they can't.
Now, if this assessment is confidental, where did some reporter get the information? Isn't it strange that this thing is confidental but still leaking certain parts of it? Am I just going all Alex Jones or does this smell an awful lot like the same crap they pulled during the campaign?
A second security bulletin also prepared after the London bombings warned that in addition to setting off bombs on trains and subways, Al Qaeda might seek to derail trains or crash a truck carrying flammable material into trains.
Like I said, if we put cops in the subways, they'll go blow up the mall. No matter what we do, they can still get us. I can't say it enough, no matter what we do, they can still get us. The only answer is to stop making them want to kill us.
And the International Association of Chiefs of Police, with 20,000 members worldwide, has issued new training guidelines to its members advising them to have officers shoot a suicide bomber in the head to avoid a life-threatening detonation.
The new guidelines, which were developed before the London bombings and first reported Thursday by The Washington Post, represent a more deadly posture in dealing with the threat of possible suicide bombers, said Joseph Estey, who is president of the chiefs' association and the police chief in Hartford, Vt.
"These are new circumstances for us to deal with, and this is an aggressive policy to respond to a narrow set of circumstances," Chief Estey said in an interview Thursday. If an officer believes he is confronting a suicide bomber who may be about to explode a bomb, he said, the new guidelines "call for a head shot, which unfortunately is the securest way of disabling someone who may have a suicide device and may try to detonate it."
Chief Estey acknowledged that the shooting death last month in a London subway of a Brazilian man, whom the police mistakenly thought was a suicide bomber, underscored the tragic possibilities if the police make the wrong decision.
For an officer to make a spot decision on whether someone is a would-be suicide bomber "is a real tough question, and there are situations where you're not sure," he said. "But when you're making those decisions on the fly, you have to have the greater public good in mind and try to save other people's lives."
That last statement causes me a lot of problems. Is our way of life now simply a numbers game? If 1 guy can harm two other people, do we just head shoot him in case he's a suicide bomber? Does a running man in a long coat = suicide bomber? This bothers me a lot but I don't have a good answer other than the one I already gave, to stop making them want to blow us up.
It's a scary world we live in. The problem is that there aren't really any good guys anymore.
posted by Big Ed at 7:22 AM
1 Comments:
stop making them want to blow us up.
That is a poser, Ed. I don't have any good answers either - I doubt anyone really does - just some thoughts.
We can't simply disengage from the Middle East and go home. We could in an ideal world not have a military presence there but we're a free society; people from the West will still be there.
The guys with the bombs and mad ideas want something they can't have, and that isn't compatible with a modern civilization next door; they want the 13th century back.
No, they dont' hate us because we're free but because (and this is simplistic) they want a culture that can't exist in the 21st century.
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