Barcelona Van Attack
Jesus. This shit literally happens once a month in Europe.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4799836/P…
13 dead, many more injured. Seems like the genie has been let out of the bottle and now terrorists realize how easy and cheap it is to cause mass casualties. I wonder how many of these have to happen before you see a massive backlash.
I'd imagine it's simply a matter of time before the US has to endure this shit.
Religion of peace strikes again. Maybe another couple of decades of civilian massacres in cities throughout the world, and people will wake up. It's doubtful though; in today's society self-righteousness and political posturing trump survival instincts and doing the right thing. Welcome to the beginning of the end of western civilization, it's gonna be a long ride folks
That's a very fragile view of Western civilization.
Truly terrible situation. Unfortunately, vehicles are the new weapon of choice for these psychopaths. Under the motivation of ISIS (or whatever organization they subscribe to), soft targets are the venue of choice now. But we have to be strong, we can't let maniacs erode our values because if they do they have accomplished their goal.
Our president on twitter in response to the attack folks: Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!
This is what Pershing allegedly did, according to Trump in an earlier interview (I say allegedly because this story is likely a myth): "They were having terrorism problems, just like we do. And he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men and he dipped 50 bullets in pigs' blood — you heard that, right? He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs' blood. And he had his men load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the 50th person, he said: You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened. And for 25 years, there wasn't a problem. Okay? Twenty-five years, there wasn't a problem."
This is who leads our country
Yeah it's silly, but compared to what? Our last president didn't seem to understand the threat radical Islamic terrorism poses
What makes you think that? Because some republican talking head told you so? Then you say that "Our last president didn't seem to understand the threat radical Islamic terrorism poses" when our current president thinks the problem can be solved by killing a few terrorists with pigs' blood dipped bullets and releasing some to let the others know what happened... I mean dude.
p.s. there is nothing "silly" about our president pushing some myth that espouses extrajudicial murder in order to solve terrorism... it's insane.
"There is no doubt, and I've said repeatedly, where we see terrorist organizations like al Qaeda or ISIL -- They have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse for basically barbarism and death," he said.
"These are people who've killed children, killed Muslims, take sex slaves, there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do," he said. "But what I have been careful about when I describe these issues is to make sure that we do not lump these murderers into the billion Muslims that exist around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful, who are responsible, who, in this country, are fellow troops and police officers and fire fighters and teachers and neighbors and friends."
"If you had an organization that was going around killing and blowing people up and said, 'We're on the vanguard of Christianity.' As a Christian, I'm not going to let them claim my religion and say, 'you're killing for Christ.' I would say, that's ridiculous," Obama said.
OMG YOU'RE RIGHT! So many people died in terrorist attacks under the Obama administration compared to the GWB. Obama didn't kill any terrorists with drones or undergo a program that so overtaxed the special operations community with missions/operational tempo that even the NYTimes was concerned.
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If America / Europe's strategy for defeating these raving lunatics intent on razing our communities and cities, slaughtering our children and raping our wives, is taking the moral high ground and not letting them "erode our values", we are way more fucked than I previously imagined
What do you suggest? I'm just curious.
Fully agree. Europe is doomed. The weak cannot lead the strong.
Come on, this is just spin. Europe has to contend with very different geopolitical circumstances than the U.S. They have a proximity to the various epicenters of terrorism that the U.S. is removed from, at least geographically. Terrorism is obviously a global problem that warrants growing global concern – no dispute there. But, Europe lacks a lot of the geographical advantages that the U.S inherently benefits from.
Additionally, their borders are deliberately more lax because the EU charter allows for free movement and the EU economy depends upon it. It can’t be boiled down to weak and strong, it’s just different circumstances entirely.
Furthermore, once you get into the calculus of what lives are worth based on geography and beliefs it becomes a game of moral relativism that is unwinnable and undignified. A sovereign state clearly has an obligation to its citizens, but there is a raw, universal human aspect that shouldn’t be ignored either, especially in its current scale. The plight of a million refugees deserves the same global concern as the thousands of lives lost due to terrorism. However, the latter gets the focus because it's ostensibly the easier problem to solve, especially if you’re willing to neglect and overlook the former.
still waiting on those suggestions...
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Go back and read some of the past threads. Obama apologies, rabid trump hater and knower of everything from the most superficial perspective known to man.
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