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Is anyone else surprised that the U.S. has not had a suicide bomber attack yet? Bomber packs are relatively easy to put togethor from what I have read, and seeing how much hatred of the U.S. there is in the Middle East, how has it not happened yet? Or do you think that it is only a matter of time?
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They're just waiting for people to feel "secure."
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Well, technically there was one back on 9-11, except they used planes instead of homemade bombs...don't think there's been anything much like that here since then, though.

As to why, I'd figure it's because they're mostly busy messing us up on their home turf in the Middle East, where they can take advantage not only of the terrain and warring factions and whatnot, but also of our presence there to spread the message of "The Westerners are invading our land, we must defend it!" to the local population and gain popular support, which makes their job easier. If they attacked here again, they'd probably provoke an initial reaction similar to 9-11, where the whole world got behind the U.S. and the war in Afghanistan was declared and completed quickly: they got lucky that we ended up distracted in Iraq, and squandered both the world's good will and the chance to capture bin Laden and finish the job in Afghanistan.

Methinks they're just taking advantage of the present situation rather than bothering to do much inside the U.S. again: the way things are in the Mideast now, the locals want us out, the rest of the world never wanted us there in the first place, and, of course, the terrorists want us out too, so they've found some common ground and/or sympathy. As such they can simply fight on land they know as long as they need to, and wait to see if the U.S. pulls out: if they do, it's a victory for them, obviously, and they can take credit for driving out the invaders. They know they're not going to be able to blow up the entire USA, no matter how many suicide packs they make: if the easier and more effective battleground is outside the U.S., that's where they're going to stay.
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Post by DEL »

Lest we forget those two guys taking daily potshots at people in Washington.
I've since heard that they had a 'quota per day' to fulfil.

They may not have been 'suicide bombers' but....
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Blast us once, shame on them. Blast us twice, shame on us.

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It would take a lot of resources to carry out an attack on the U.S., plus there's always the chance of an embarressing failure. It's probably much easier for suicide bombers to hit U.S. iraqi forces or Europe.
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That was hilarious, Specineff :P

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*attempting thread hijacking, please don't comment cause you can't*
Out of all scandals this takes the cake
Is anyone surprised our Dutch government let a new political party rise.
This party wants to make it legal for grown men to have sex with 12 year old kids and even tape it for pornography.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story. ... 465815.htm
I'm so proud to be Dutch. And our government is so smart, they really know what they're doing.

Tommorow I am going to create a new political party that wants to leglize killing. I want to kill 14 million people and not get prosecuted. Now did that make any sense? no it didn't. Would my party be stopped before it would even be created? probably. Then why wasn't this stopped. It's an emberasment Internationally and to all other nationalities living in the Netherlands, better yet, it's just an emberasment for the entire race of humans. Can I go back to being a monkey or something, cause this is ridiculous.

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Well, we've got NAMBLA. I wouldn't be ashamed unless they succeeded in changing the law.
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D wrote:*attempting thread hijacking, please don't comment cause you can't*
Out of all scandals this takes the cake
Is anyone surprised our Dutch government let a new political party rise.
This party wants to make it legal for grown men to have sex with 12 year old kids and even tape it for pornography.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story. ... 465815.htm
I'm so proud to be Dutch. And our government is so smart, they really know what they're doing.

Tommorow I am going to create a new political party that wants to leglize killing. I want to kill 14 million people and not get prosecuted. Now did that make any sense? no it didn't. Would my party be stopped before it would even be created? probably. Then why wasn't this stopped. It's an emberasment Internationally and to all other nationalities living in the Netherlands, better yet, it's just an emberasment for the entire race of humans. Can I go back to being a monkey or something, cause this is ridiculous.

Yours,
an emberased Dutch human being
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Whoever did that article about the Dutch paedophile party wrote:The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all.
Yeah, well done, kiddy-fiddlers! Free train travel for all! That'll get the public behind you! :roll: :lol:
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