Re:Terrorist Hunt Sends America Over the Edge
by LeeHunter on Sunday April 21, 2013 @10:06AM
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As the original article points out, these two kids achieved something that the worst of the World War Two bombing of London was not able to do, which is to shut down a major city for a day.
Rightly or wrongly, terrorists will view this as a spectacular success, in some ways greater than 9/11 since it only took a couple of kids to pull off.
I don't know if that kid feels victorious but you can be darn sure that his peers are throwing high fives all around.
Re:Terrorist Hunt Sends America Over the Edge
by sliverstorm on Sunday April 21, 2013 @07:42PM
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these two kids achieved something that the worst of the World War Two bombing of London was not able to do
Sure, but I'm still unsure that anybody would actually care. It seems like a "Guinness Book of World Records" achievement, not a global politics achievement.
If the goal of terrorists is to make Americans live in fear every day, it certainly seems to me like they are losing, badly. If the goal is to make Americans uneasy for a day, whatever. I have no problems admitting I am uneasy about a guy roaming the neighborhood, armed and running from the cops. Did the terrorists just win when I admitted that?