re: #30 sattv4u2

If anyone’s keeping score - put me down as agreeing with you.
Maybe I put too much trust and faith in our people out there fighting the good fight but, I would find it very hard to believe these threats were anything more than just trying to scare the living sh*t out of these dirtbags. Does anyone really believe they had any intention of actually following through ? C’mon. Lets not starting second guessing these people. For crying out load there’s a Chris Farley movie ‘Tommy Boy in which a female
character yells out to a group of you boys (who are making fun of Farleys characters weight) that went something lie:
“I know where you live and when I get done with you your own mothers won’t recognize you”. The next line she tells Farley that she just said this for effect. And this is a damn comedy ! I don’t recall the American public marching en masse to have this movie pulled from theaters - in fact it’s in regular rotation on cable to this day. Any sane person ‘gets’ the writers didn’t come up with this scene in seriousness. She wouldn’t actually harm a hair on any of these kids heads (the writers did insure she explained this). She scared the kids and they ran away - mission accomplished (yeah, don’t remind me that ‘its just a movie idiot’ - I know, not my point).
OK, forget movies and what the American public can handle in pop culture -
How about flame throwers against enemy combatants ?
How about dropping 2 atomic bombs over densely populated cities ? How about the fire bombing of Dresden ? Do they sit any better with you ? Man, we are doomed. And we deserve it.
Does anyone ever try imagining what one might be capable of just after 9/11 ? If you have family (kids) living in the NYC or DC area, worried out of your mind that while you’re abroad, back at home, at any minute another attack might just well be in the making and your kids might die as the 9/11 victims did ? Damn, and you can’t imagine yourself in the interrogators position, growing increasingly desperate, having failed to get intel.up to this point, you can’t imagine yourself maybe becoming a little unglued ? Maybe you throw caution to the wind and start using ‘words’ to get the
enemy to talk. Oh the frickin’ humanity !! What the hell is going on in this country ?? I’ve spent my entire life not second guessing Truman’s decision. I think I can get past this one too. I HOPE that if anything comes of this some of you are ready to march (as in protest) on the Capital. There was a time in this country, I know, I lived trough it, that a kid might dream of the day he was old enough to become a soldier, a Special Agent or even the POTUS. Who the hell would bother anymore ?
Ungrateful. If I knew the scum bucket sitting in front of me liley had knowledge of an imminent attack and he just wasn’t talkin’ - I won’t tell you what I’d be prepared to do.
I’d be fired, probably jailed (and probably medicated too).
Waterboarding - as a child I was ‘dunked’ (yeah, thinking I was going to drown) at the community pool, neighbors pools etc., etc. probably a dozen times…and I retaliated too. Part of growing up.
To think these poor bastards had to suffer through same !
Once, twice maybe three or four times ! These are sociopaths. Child killers. Butchers. They’d cut your freakin’ head off and sit down to dinner 5 minutes later.
A 20’ length of underwater fireworks fuse and some catheter tubing… now that’s torture. We really need to keep this stuff in perspective.
‘Sticks and stones…”