Brussels explosions, at least 13 dead

"While our friends and allies are being attacked, “President Obama is spending his time going to baseball games with the Castros,” Cruz continued."

Ted Cruz Blames Obama And 'Political Correctness' For Attack In Brussels (VIDEO) - FreakOutNation

 

I didn't know Obama was running again.

 

The only thing Obama did wrong his entire Presidency was to play golf moments after he spoke about "Jim" getting beheaded by ISIS.

That was unacceptable.

In all other instances, he's shown almost perfect judgment.

 

The whole thing is apples to oranges.

The Bush thing was an attack on our country, on a massive scale.

Sorry 6-year-olds, you'll eventually understand.

 

Take off the ist off terrorist and it really rolls off the tongue.

 

Damn, you're right. I was trying not to be a slave to syllables for a change.

 

I agree with you. I think it would have been appropriate for him to skip it.

That said, I also understand he had to weigh the importance of his diplomatic mission to Cuba and our national interests with a country 90 miles from our shores. Obviously, there is great importance to a U.S. President's first visit to Cuba in 90 years and he has to be sensitive to that as well.

EDIT: I just saw your second post, which was much more nuanced and thoughtful and I agree with you even more fully. I'm certainly not suggesting posters stop their lives or even shed a tear over the attacks. I hold most of the board in high regard, even those with whom I frequently disagree, and I was surprised at the reaction here. I thought there would be more compassion, more of a sense of brotherhood with the citizens of Belgium, who are facing the same enemy we are.

Dark humor is fine, and I'm certainly prone to use it, but that's not what I got from those posts. They took on a more mocking tone.

 

At some point, you wonder how are able to keep recruiting suicide-bombers. These guys have to know by now that they aren't accomplishing much. It isn't like one more bombing is suddenly going to make the rest of the world "understand" ISIS. It isn't like ISIS has demands that if fulfilled will get them to stop bombing people.
It's like American Idol - you make a big deal of the first one, the 17th? Knowing there will be an 18th? Not so much.
Is anybody really more scared of ISIS after Belgium?

 

You do understand why they blow themselves up, right? You might not think it's accomplishing much. They believe martyrdom puts them in paradise--virgins, etc.

 

It's always good to get tips from the Castros on how to deal with people who oppose you.

 

ISIS recruits are the same type of losers who tote assault rifles at the grocery store in the U.S.

 

They don't want to be understood. They simply don't place any value on earthly human life, their own or anyone else's.