Terrorists Suck!

NPHuskerFL

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/mb/news/nation-now/reports-explosions-rock-brussels-airport/95800311

kl8ton

+1 on terrorists suck

theyolksonyou

Yep. And my oldest son is in NYC headed to DC on a school trip. Guess he'll get to experience heightened security measures along with the hustle of the big city. 

Needless to say, the mommas are not happy. 

JohnInCarolina

Awful.  Just... awful.   

RRP

You have to wonder where they keep finding these idiots who can be so brain washed to become suicide bombers in the name of their religion.   

1move

I never could understand what would drive you to hurt so many people. It's the fact that media glorifies all these terrorists. What I mean by glorifying is the fact that their name is made known and repeated over and over and goes down in history. Instead of focusing on the victims they go into the back story and how messed up that person was, I feel this gives others ideas and they want to be remembered even if it's the worst way possible. It's a sad world we live in! 

HeavyG

Bad people suck.

evie1370

Yep, and we are going to Germany and Denmark in May. But screw them, I am not going to fear them so much that I stay home and cower. Careful yes, paranoid..no. +4 or so on terrorists suck, by the way.

northGAcock

Their objective is to change what you do to avoid being impacted. Go forward with your life as you normally would or else they are winning. Never let them win.

gdenby

(::()::)  (:|

With the Paris attacker taken alive, I suppose others knew their time was coming too, and so they did their worst while they could. Given a few more months, what they might have done would have been even worse.

Not that that makes things any better.

JohnInCarolina

One of the doctoral students in my lab is Belgian, and I think he has family in Brussels.  It'll be interesting to talk to him this afternoon.  

GATraveller

I'm afraid this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Canugghead

evie1370 said:

Yep, and we are going to Germany and Denmark in May. But screw them, I am not going to fear them so much that I stay home and cower. Careful yes, paranoid..no. +4 or so on terrorists suck, by the way.

We are going to Paris in two days, followed by cruise out of Barcelona, then Amsterdam before returning home... all hot spots in EU!

WeberWho

Canugghead said:

evie1370 said:

Yep, and we are going to Germany and Denmark in May. But screw them, I am not going to fear them so much that I stay home and cower. Careful yes, paranoid..no. +4 or so on terrorists suck, by the way.

We are going to Paris in two days, followed by cruise out of Barcelona, then Amsterdam before returning home... all hot spots in EU!

It will probably be the safest it's been in months with all this crap going on 

WeberWho

Canugghead said:

evie1370 said:

Yep, and we are going to Germany and Denmark in May. But screw them, I am not going to fear them so much that I stay home and cower. Careful yes, paranoid..no. +4 or so on terrorists suck, by the way.

We are going to Paris in two days, followed by cruise out of Barcelona, then Amsterdam before returning home... all hot spots in EU!

It will probably be one of safest times to be over there with all this garbage.

Fred19Flintstone

Here's an idea:  How about we quit pussyfooting around and kick the terrorists' a$$?

Acn

Canugghead said:

evie1370 said:

Yep, and we are going to Germany and Denmark in May. But screw them, I am not going to fear them so much that I stay home and cower. Careful yes, paranoid..no. +4 or so on terrorists suck, by the way.

We are going to Paris in two days, followed by cruise out of Barcelona, then Amsterdam before returning home... all hot spots in EU!

Nice, we're heading to Paris in three days.  Staying there for a week though, not moving around nearly as much.

henapple

Political rants followed by the Buffalo in 3...2...1

Canugghead

Acn said:

Nice, we're heading to Paris in three days.  Staying there for a week though, not moving around nearly as much.

Safe travels.

Acn

Canugghead said:

Acn said:

Nice, we're heading to Paris in three days.  Staying there for a week though, not moving around nearly as much.

Safe travels.

Same to you!

SGH

RRP said:

You have to wonder where they keep finding these idiots who can be so brain washed to become suicide bombers in the name of their religion.   

Ron, I would love to add a note to the above verse. But I feel that it would only entice the buffalo. Thus, I slink quietly away............. 

JohnInCarolina

Fred19Flintstone said:

Here's an idea:  How about we quit pussyfooting around and kick the terrorists' a$$?

• http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/world/middleeast/omar-chechen-isis-killed-us-airstrike-syria.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/
  

Legume

It's a timing thing John, what Fred really means is do this kind thing when there is a president he likes in office.

Acn

Legume said:

It's a timing thing John, what Fred really means is do this kind thing when there is a president he likes in office.

To say nothing of quoting the NY Times.  If this 'Omar the Chechen' even exists, he's certainly no more than senior dishwasher.

Darby_Crenshaw

Fred19Flintstone said:

Here's an idea:  How about we quit pussyfooting around and kick the terrorists' a$$?

Dang right. We're pussyfooting around when should be carpet bombing Belgium

Fred19Flintstone

Darby_Crenshaw said:

Fred19Flintstone said:

Here's an idea:  How about we quit pussyfooting around and kick the terrorists' a$$?

Dang right. We're pussyfooting around when should be carpet bombing Belgium

How about at least not releasing terrorists from Gitmo so they can return to the battlefield?

egger ave

Heard a quote today that we are fighting WWIII, agreed. Don't kid yourself, these guys want to kill us, our way of life and start the apocalypse. Too bad our "leaders" can't even say the words "muslim extremists".

lousubcap

Sadly, it will not get any better.  Look at the ISIS "killed" data over the past year, they don't have any inventory problem.
Started with an assumption of around 20k fighters in the late summer of 2014, killed around 20k fighters in 2015; have around 20-25k fighters today.  Regardless of the complete accuracy the trend is there.  
If it were easy, it would have been done already.  FWIW-

JohnInCarolina

This incident did expose the "security theatre" around airports as somehow keeping us more safe.  People congregate in security and baggage lines, and since checkpoints aren't set up around the entire airport, there's nothing preventing a terrorist attack from taking place inside of the airport itself (just on the other side of security).  

Perhaps not surprisingly, some of the usual clowns are now proposing we simply push the security envelope outwards, and set up a perimeter around the airport.  Then security looks through your car before you're allowed to enter the airport and park.  What could go wrong?  

Freedumb.  

thetrim

We need to fight to win.  Rules of engagement have been way too tight since day 1 post 9-11.  By both Bush and Obama regimes.

GATraveller

I'm not a proponent for the airport perimeter idea but it would work.