The White House is calling today's Northwest Airlines incident an attempted attack

[ImbracableCrunk]

Besides, the barrister of my long, lost recently deceased uncle is there and is going to deposit $300M into my account any day now.

Nice.

 

[skypine69]

So your response is to do nothing? OK that should work wonders.

We did "nothing" for decades leading up to the turn of the century and things got worse not better.

As far as the government's immediate response to this act, they've got us chasing our tails again. Not the "victory" the Islamists wanted but a small "victory" for them none the less.

Until we have a "non-wussy" who is willing to lead and implement the PROVEN screening system the Israelis use (Bush wouldn't do it either), this will continue to get worse.

Good god....I said I would rather do nothing than start a war. That does not mean I want to do nothing. There is space in between. But all the macho talk on here is what bush did for 8 years and look where it got us.

The system the Israelis us is effective right now for them, but if it were used widespread it would also diminish in effectiveness. The only way to eliminate terrorism is to eliminate terrorists....and starting a war in a muslim country which had nothing to do with attacks on the US only created more terrorists.

 

[rumorhasit]

Skypine is a tool. This is the lamest response I think I have ever seen here at FI.

Baja.

New a FI huh? Lol

 

[retired guy]

(1) This idiot boarded a KLM flight to Holland, then switched to DAL/NW in Amsterdam (2) He`s gonna end up right along side Richard the shoe bomber in Super Max in Colorado for the rest of his sorry life.(3) The TSA will now do a cavity search on little old ladies and Norwegians.

 

[OurMoney1]

Time to wake up.

We dodged the shoe bomber and now this idiot, I fear we wont be so lucky the next time. They want to reign holy war on us by raining our country side with airplane pieces.

God help us all.

 

[SLUF4]

I'm no Obama supporter, but let's remember he did give the seals the go-ahead to take out those pirates holding the ship captain hostage off Somalia. I wonder how this will shake out in terms of going after these terror cells in Yemen etc... Now they're saying on the news the guy had high explosives strapped to his leg. I guess we all should stay at our highest vigilance especially when commuting or deadheading

 

[dbrownie]

I'm no Obama supporter, but let's remember he did give the seals the go-ahead to take out those pirates holding the ship captain hostage off Somalia. I wonder how this will shake out in terms of going after these terror cells in Yemen etc... Now they're saying on the news the guy had high explosives strapped to his leg. I guess we all should stay at our highest vigilance especially when commuting or deadheading

He is also letting those seals fry for busting a lip
on a known terrorist when they captured him.
We can't fight a war with our hands tied, this started
under bush as well.

 

[livin'thesim]

This will make for an interesting campaign for 2010.

 

[Bringupthebird]

. But the retards on here who want a "non-wussy" in the White House are referring to the last occupant who started a war on a country that had nothing to do with an attack on the US in response to that attack. I would much rather we do nothing than start some stupid war.

You should review history. Bush went into Iraq to enforce UN resolutions (if there's a more wussy organization than the UN, I'm not aware). The war eliminated one threat in an arena of multiple threats and allowed the Iraqi people to live under their own rule, rather than a tyrant.

If pulling that off took longer and cost more than you like, then you need to adjust your expectations of what the world is up against, not just run and hide.

Remember, these people don't want to peacefully coexist, regardless of what the bumper stickers say. They want to slay the weak.

Obama should have that etched in his shaving mirror, for all our sake.

 

[Going2Baja]

New a FI huh? Lol

Not so much...But funny. Thanks.

Baja.