We have had a couple of successful terrorist attacks on US soil.\u00c2\u00a0 The Fort Hood Massacre, where, as usual, the Muslim aspect of the attack was played down, resulted in 13 deaths.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been a couple of instances of Muslims driving SUVs into crowds, resulting in a few deaths and lots of injuries.\u00c2\u00a0 But the most successful attack, measured by how well it terrorized people, was carried out by John Allen Muhammad, the DC sniper.<\/p>\n
With nothing more than a rifle, a used car, and an accomplice, Muhammad was able to terrorize tens of millions of people who were afraid to go about their daily routines.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a simple, inexpensive operation, one that should be easy to replicate.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine the effect of a half dozen such teams spread out across the US.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be devastating.\u00c2\u00a0 It wouldn’t take many resources, but it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happened.\u00c2\u00a0 That alone tells us that Al Qaeda doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the money or brains to do it.<\/p>\n
You are literally more likely to be hit by lightening than to be killed by a terrorist in the US, and given their track record, that’s not going to change, ever.\u00c2\u00a0 If you still have any fear of these bumblers, it’s time to give it up.<\/p>\n
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Can We Stop Being Afraid Now?<\/p>\n
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The details of the NYC Wannabomber read like a Pink Panther script. <\/span>He created a Rube Goldberg bomb that had no chance of working, and cleverly left the keys to his getaway vehicle in the bomb car. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
Anyone reading this could have searched Google and found dozens of different designs for bombs that would, you know, explode. <\/span>This clown spent five months training in a Pakistani terrorist camp. The US military needs to find the exact location of that camp and be very, very careful we never damage it. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
The Wannabomber comes after the Underwear bomber, another comically failed attempt by another Muslim who also went to a terrorist training camp. <\/span>His sole accomplishment was giving himself second degree penis burns. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
He tried to bring the plane down over Detroit, of all places. <\/span>In most places a plane crash would result in substantial loss of life on the ground. <\/span>If he had Googled Detroit Photos, which would have taken all of six seconds, he’d have known a plane could crash in the city without hitting a single person on the ground. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
We have had a couple of successful terrorist attacks on US soil. <\/span>The Fort Hood Massacre, where, as usual, the Muslim aspect of the attack was played down, resulted in 13 deaths. <\/span>There have been a couple of instances of Muslims driving SUVs into crowds, resulting in a few deaths and lots of injuries. <\/span>But the most successful attack, measured by how well it terrorized people, was carried out by John Allen Muhammad, the DC sniper. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
With nothing more than a rifle, a used car, and an accomplice, Muhammad was able to terrorize tens of millions of people who were afraid to go about their daily routines. <\/span>It was a simple, inexpensive operation, one that should be easy to replicate. <\/span>Imagine the effect of a half dozen teams doing this across the US. <\/span>It wouldn’t take many resources, but it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happened. <\/span>That alone tells us that Al Qaeda doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the money or brains to do it. <\/span><\/p>\n\n
<\/span> <\/span>You are literally more likely to be hit by lightening than to be killed by a terrorist in the US. <\/span>If you still have any fear of these bumblers, it’s time to give it up.<\/p>\n\n
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Detroit photos <\/span>http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1864272_1810098,00.html<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The details of the NYC Wannabomber reads like a Pink Panther script.\u00c2\u00a0 He created a Rube Goldberg bomb that had no chance of working, then cleverly left the keys to his getaway vehicle in the bomb car. Anyone reading this blog could have searched Google and in fifteen minutes collected dozens of different designs for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}