Mass Shooting At Newspaper In Paris

What policy drove middle class, well educated Saudis to fly airplanes into the Twin Towers?

And, should we have altered our policies in an attempt to prevent attacks of that nature?

 

There are probably hundreds of millions of people who disagree with U.S. foreign policy.

Only radicals use bloodshed as a way to voice their displeasure.

 

Nothing. You're right. Just a random attack by random radicals on a random target in a random country. They almost went with a park bench in Laramie, Wyoming, in fact. Luck of the fucking draw, I guess.

 

Brain damage from smoking marijuana as a teen made him susceptible to radicalization:

The man who allegedly orchestrated France’s deadliest terrorist attackin half a century was introduced to radical Islam by a charismatic janitor who led a band of social misfits and petty criminals through military-style training exercises in a Paris park.

At the time, Chérif Kouachiwas a pot-smoking pizza delivery man, drifting through life with only the vaguest of attachments to religion.

But his indoctrination more than a decade ago would prove fateful. It fired a zeal for violence that was apparently never extinguished despite an aborted trip to Iraq to battle U.S. forces, a three-year prison term and a long stretch when Kouachi convinced those around him — and perhaps even French law enforcement — that he had given up his dream of dying a martyr.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...6f6c90-974e-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html

 

The World Trade Center represented our way of life in a way that a park bench in Laramie, Wyoming does not.

It also had a greater potential for mass killing.

 

But I thought that radicals can't be antagonized?

 

WaPo, and a growing number of media outlets, has included any and all references to pot-smoking in any requisite story to appease the Y-Effian Crowd of newspaper readers.

If you sniff the air just right you can smell the WaPo editors who hang out here; they're the ones with ratty Fruit of the Loom draws.

 

Everything we do "antagonizes" them. To suggest we could avoid "antagonizing" them by avoiding certain actions or behavior is silly. If someone wants to justify their radical behavior, they will always be able to do so.

 

Pot smoking loser makes poor decision. Story at 11:00.

 

I hate when you make me defend YF.

 

Like many of us you're a closet Y-Effian.

 

Before MC became radicalized, he liked me.