Dry Run
In the end, you can’t expect your government to save you. You might expect better than this. But in the end, you have to be prepared to identify potential threats. You can report your concerns. They may or may not do something about it. It’s up to you to pay attention to where they are and what they are doing, and plan out what you are going to do if you need to do something. It may include people getting hurt and dying. Including you.
Topics: GWOT
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:36 am on Wednesday, May 30, 2007
12 Responses to “Dry Run”
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May 30th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
What truly pisses me off is the second paragraph.
According to the Homeland Security report, the “suspicious passengers,” 12 Syrians and their Lebanese-born promoter, were traveling on Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on expired visas. U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES EXTENDED THE VISAS ONE WEEK AFTER THE JUNE 29, 2004, INCIDENT.
That’s nice. Do a dry run of hijacking and crashing a plane on an expired visa and get the visas extended by the US government. And these are the people who are going to be involved in the immigration bill if it gets passed! Give me my Z visa now!!
May 30th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
It may include people getting hurt and dying. Including you.
Word, Jules. Word.
May 30th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Nah. Don’t let fear and common sense get in the way of diversity, multiculturalism, and a sensitivity to the terrorist’s feelings.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
And it isn’t just airplanes, either. It’s shopping malls, trains, theme parks, big tourist sites, any place at all that would get big headlines should terrorists decide to strike. Americans are going to have to learn to be like Israelis: watchful, aware, and armed.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
I thought we attacked them over there so they wouldn’t attack us over here? Sounds like that plan must have gone wrong somewhere along the line.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Hmmmmmm……corndog appears to be gloating over the possibility of another direct terrorist attack on America. Especially since Jules has been posting about dry runs by terrorists for several days…..who have been enabled by a number of domestic sources in spite of what’s going on (or not going on) in Iraq.
And I am completely unsurprised by corndog in this. How odd. Not.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
They already attacked us over here, corny. Where were you on 9/11? Or in 1993, for that matter?
May 30th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
“In the end, you can’t expect your government to save you.”
O.k. by me…as long as they’re killing terrorists 24/7.
I don’t want pretection…I want vengeance.
May 31st, 2007 at 8:32 am
Excellent reading skills once again, Jeffy! Gloating over the possiblity of a direct terrorist attack? Show me where!
Pointing out the sheer stupidity of waging a war of choice as a way to protect against the possiblity of a terrorist attack? You damn becha. Want to tackle that instead of trying to evade the point?
May 31st, 2007 at 9:21 am
waging a war of choice as a way to protect against the possiblity of a terrorist attack?
Read this again, corny, and then try to work out why this isn’t one of the dumbest things you’ve ever said (among many).
May 31st, 2007 at 10:37 am
Rebecca,
Yes, it is amazingly, jaw-droppingly stupid. And yet it is our president’s (current) justification for war in Iraq.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:03 am
And you’re right about it not working, Rebecca. Al Qaeda now runs training camps in Iraq and uses it to raise millions of dollars for operations, one of which is bound to end up here. Meanwhile, the Iraqi government is closely allied with Iran and its police and military are sufused with insurgents. And you call people who oppose this stupidity “anti-American.”