Do you love it now?
You love jihad? Huh. Well, I don't.
Someone set off a bomb in Pakistan during prayer time, in an effort to murder as many non combatants as possible. They murdered 40. What did the people do to the rescue force. In true form they attacked them. I’m sure in their minds, America did it somehow. (notice how the article says that "the blast" killed them, not terrorists)
That would crazy logic to use at a courtmartial. "Well technically, even though I sighted in, accounting for range and wind and walking speed, controlled my breathing and intentionally pressed a shot directly into the skull of a nun, I didn’t kill her. The projectile did.
Sheer madness. Hey AP. Get real.
Remember back in March, when that cruise ship capsized in Bahrain? 57 people died and the US Navy helped with the rescue efforts, and 67 were saved. Well, the families of the survivors decided it would be the best idea to riot, at the cruise ship offices.
This happens often with savage folk. They blame whoever they perceive as the authority, or whoever is in view, and they attack them. The savages also simultaneously complain about “lack of security”, while attacking security forces.
I’m not bringing this up to point out that terrorists are bad. Well, I am sort of, because people forget sometimes. My focus is that harboring terrorists isn’t the best way to have a nice place to live. One of the biggest things that struck me when I was in Iraq, was how apathetic and indifferent the people were to terrorism. One would think that they would scratch their heads and say “Wait a minute, perhaps terrorists aren’t really interested in our welfare. They just murdered at least 40 civilians, on purpose, and that’s sort of bullshit.”
But no, they will just shrug and do their “inch allah” thing, and complain, and throw rocks at their police and medics. Or burn down a KFC, with the employees inside.
"Jibbili Nestle?"
posted by brando at 12:33 PM
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Unreal. I've wondered that, too, about the whole apparent indifference. Has it become so much a part of their culture that they just stop doing anything about it?
I mean, you still see the "not-in-out-town" anti-Wal*Mart protests, even though Wal*Marts continue to pop up all over the place.
It's the same for starbucks. Those chains thrive in places that claim to be against "corporations".
Publicity is publicity I guess.
Maybe that's why KFC keeps being rebuilt in Karachi -- going there is a huge adrenaline rush, because you might come home after eating a bucket of wings and find your family beheaded.
King Crab fishing isnt the most dangerous job in the world. Working at Karachi Fried Christians is.
It's kind've funny though. There is that sense of indifference you talk about, but it seems like middle-easterners will "demonstrate" at the drop of a hat. There almost seems to be no individual identiy -- you talk to them one on one, and it's like "whatever," but you get them in a huge group and it's fuckin' on.
the reason demonstrators sometimes piss me off is because of the few of them who decide to vandalize, be disrespectful and don't do anything else with their lives to change things.
for example, rather than vote with their dollars and ask their friends to as well, by not working for or shopping at walmart, they riot, vandalize, stop traffic, get arrested and say they've changed the world . . . my motto: "don't just talk about it, don't just protest, DO SOMETHING!"
Tabitha: Absolutely! Your dollar vote is huge. One of the really cool things in a market economy is that you don't have to buy a product. We can always buy an alternate, or heaven forbid, just do without.
A guy I know was trying to tell me that cable was overpriced and that the greedy cable companies were "gouging" us. I then pointed out what I thought was the obvious solution, magnified by the fact that cable is a luxury.
"Cancel your cable."
He rejected that idea instantly on the basis that he "needs" it, and argued that it wasn't a luxury. Throwing in the usual mantra of "it should be illegial" and "refund".
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