Paris Mayhem

Timothy McVeigh had me at 9.999999. The "little bit racist" part of me put me at 9.9999999 vis-a-vis Paris. But what do I know of my subconscious life? I might have been at 9.99999999.

 

I think you'd make a great house master at Yale.

 

Sheesh. I guess they're right about conservatives being hypersensitive to fear. Riding on a highway must send you into sobbing spasms.

 

How many anti-social aryan nation members (or whatever group he was affiliated with), have blown up buildings since Timothy McVeigh?

 

It's Kockgobbling. Get it right.

 

The same number as the number of terrorist attacks ISIS has successfully implemented in the United States.

 

Paris lives don't matter?

 

1) Who said I was a conservative?

2) Stipulating arguendo that I am ... Who said I'm sensitive to my fear(s)? I'm a middle-aged married father of three. If I were sensitive to my fears I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

 

*eyeroll*

You said listed multiple events of terrorist attacks getting you up well past 9.99 on what I presume is a 1-10 scale of fear. Given the odds of you actually being harmed by a terrorist, and that you are a fairly rational person (as far as people go), I can only assume that the many things more likely to harm or kill you also put you at that level or higher. That's ... a *lot* of fear to live with.

 

For the purposes of discussing what, if any, changes need to be made to U.S. counterterrorism efforts, they do not matter a whole lot. Their security concerns are not automatically ours. If we study the attacks and see anything *specific* that we need to change, I'm open to it, but the mere fact that they happened does not prove that we should change anything.

 

Jessie Spano on a caffeine pill bender wasn't 9.9+ on the fear scale.

 

I most certainly did reas the Wood piece. In fact, I recommended it only a few pages back. You must not have read the piece I linked. Nowhere does it say, nor have I, that ISIS is not motivated entirely by their interpretation of Islam. It makes the argument for why politicians (damn lefties) are reluctant to label it as such -- to avoid lumping all Muslims together. Which I agree with. Read back through this thread and you might see why. I have no problem with calling it radical Islam because I understand the distinction. Clearly, many do not.