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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 2 2010, 04:06 PM (173 Views) | |
| George K | Jan 2 2010, 04:06 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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White House Adviser Briefed in October on Underwear Bomb Technique Obama Got Pre-Christmas Intelligence Briefing About Terror Threats to 'Homeland' MI5 knew of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s UK extremist links A bit more specific than "Bin-Laden Determined to Attack US," I'd say. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| brenda | Jan 2 2010, 05:15 PM Post #2 |
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Who knew? Quite a few? |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 2 2010, 06:19 PM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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George, what should Obama have done differently? |
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| George K | Jan 2 2010, 06:24 PM Post #4 |
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Excellent question. Nonspecific threat against nonspecific target with nonspecific date. I don't know what he should have done differently. Do you? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 2 2010, 06:38 PM Post #5 |
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Cheers
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No, hence the question. I also have to admit being unaware of the facts of the case - I was cut off from phone, TV, and internet from 25-Dec until yesterday. Didn't this guy board the plane in Lagos? I also have a relatively unpopular belief that there's a limit to how much we should do to defend against people blowing up planes. 9-11 taught us that planes can be used as missiles, that indeed we should defend against. But 'just' blowing up a plane is like shooting up a crowded McDonalds at lunch time. If we heard someone was going to do that, would we really install metal detectors at every fast food restaurant? I wouldn't think so. In my view airline safety should be about securing the cockpit. (I'll repeat, I realize my views on this issue put me in a minority) |
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| George K | Jan 2 2010, 06:41 PM Post #6 |
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Is that what you really meant? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Jan 2 2010, 06:48 PM Post #7 |
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Cheers
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That too! |
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| QuirtEvans | Jan 2 2010, 07:03 PM Post #8 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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I'm with you in that minority. You can't mitigate every risk, and sometimes the risk is less expensive than the measures to mitigate it would cost. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| John Galt | Jan 2 2010, 07:09 PM Post #9 |
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Fulla-Carp
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+1 There are basically an infinite number of ways for terrorists to strike. It is impossible to protect against all of them. |
| Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness. | |
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| ivorythumper | Jan 3 2010, 01:01 PM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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The government has to be successful every time. The terrorist only has to be successful once. |
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