That doesn't clarify anything, but thanks anyway.
Not necessarily true. The reason I say this is various terrorists groups do small runs. These act as a staging device to understand the operational response. The real attack comes with larger impact and more optimized to take advantage of weaknesses in the system. So while I'd bet on the 'maximum' option, we really can't say until the criminals are caught and their motivations better understood.
Because it's innately ambiguous.
Sure, but at what cost? The cost of us not blowing other people's kids up and calling it "collateral damage" or "an operation" or "surgical strike"? At the cost of not controlling the worlds resources? At the cost of finally having to pay what things actually cost? Or, it could be that the cost wouldn't be born by us but by people much more "important" than us. I've seen too many videos of kids bodies getting pulled out of the rubble of buildings we blew up for their own good - willing to dish it, not willing to take it. But if all those foreign families I'll never meet are not my problem, then neither are these foreign people I'll never meet. Give it a week. We'll see the pictures of the dead (as they were in life) over and over and hear from their families then it will go underground into legislation to pop up from time to time as a grenade that the parties can lob at each other, "Sandy Hook", the Dems will lob. "Boston Marathon" the Reps will lob back. The next thing you know the gubmint will be coming for our bombs, or our books, or whatever it takes and how ever many doors they need to kick down and how ever many people have to disappear in the night for Americans to be safe.
If they are probing they won't need to do it on TV. Keeping it out of the way and small time would be better. If they go straight to a televised event then that's the money shot - it means that's all the capabilities they have and it's important for as many people as possible to see it.
First of all, you're assuming the Boston bombs are a foreign attack. Sure the evidence points that way, but it's not concrete yet. But for the sake of argument, let's assume that's how it is.
They do dry runs, without the boom. The guy who planted the 2010 NYC Times Square bomb confessed to doing a dry run, which was useful as it helped him pick an appropriate parking spot. The 9/11 attackers conducted dry runs smuggling box cutters past security.
really? It never looked like that to me.
That's kinda what i thought too. However the pressure cooker bomb seems popular with islamists and was also part of the nyc 2010 times square attempt. But, I'm also confident that Americans are capable of learning from islamic terrorists. And in a way i hope its not al qaida.
Obviously Waziristan is a large area and people are spread all over the place, but the people are tribal meaning tightly knit. We're clearly not talking about major cities here where we can expect diversity. If you walk into a village and find one terrorist there's likely to be a lot more. I have no doubt that the people of Waziristan are predominantly Pashtun and sympathetic to the Taliban.
are you actually siding with right wing wackadoodles ???
