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Old 04-22-2013, 2:03pm   #1
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Default Boston bombing coverage... how much is too much?

Maybe it is that I am biased towards the military. Maybe I am desensitized somehow. Hell, maybe I just played too much Super Mario Bros. growing up but I think we have gone on long enough.

Don't get me wrong... I realize that 2 Americans (and a Chinese national) were killed and quite a few more were injured very severely. They and their families have nothing but my well wishes.

For a week straight, 24/7, on pretty much every channel right down to ESPN, this has been front and center as the only topic of discussion.

Meanwhile, 4 soldiers were killed and 6 injured in Pakistan yesterday when a remote controlled IED exploded. 3 contract US security personnel were wounded when ambushed on the same day. Overnight, 4 more US soldiers were killed and a few others severely wounded in Afghanistan when a secondary trigger caused an IED that was deemed to be disarmed to explode...

8 killed... many wounded... BY TERRORISTS in a 24 hour span and I haven't seen a word about it anywhere other than a quick blurb on Fox News.

WHY will this entire country be completely consumed by what happened in Boston and apparently not give a single shit about the soldiers who voluntarily put themselves in harm's way to protect all of us from these acts going forward? Are these American lives somehow less important? Does nobody care since they don't help push an agenda? Does it not make for riveting news coverage??
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I was desperately trying to find a station that had normal stuff for a few days. Enough is enough, especially when they repeat the same reports over and over. And I'm in CANADA!!!
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Because they all wanted to be the FIRST to report the "news".
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"Boston Strong":

Yeah right, liberal pussies. All of a sudden guns are ok for them. For now. Tragically this will happen again. And again. And the cities picked will be soft targets.
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I wonder if there is any correlation between our wars abroad and our terror problems domestically?
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It's old news now.
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I saw a special on bomb sniffing dogs, and that appears to be the way to go. They can sniff out any explosives from a distance with amazing accuracy. They would have found those and had time to at least clear the area.
If they had 2 dogs on either side patrolling where the crowd was they might have prevented it.
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YES, on our conduct side, we really DO have the power to eliminate islam as any significant force in the whole damn world.....

seriously, and it's NOT taking a nukey war head to do it either....

6 weeks, and we get free oil.....

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I wonder if there is any correlation between our wars abroad and our terror problems domestically?

Are you implying that if we weren't over there with a military presence, these EXTREMISTS would suddenly be ok with us and leave us alone?

Their hatred and violence is to ANYBODY who believes differently than them. Look at the hundreds of individual terrorist attacks over the last decade. Almost every single 1 of them was carried out in countries with zero military presence in "their" lands. It has nothing to do with "our wars abroad". It has everything to do with the fact that they want to kill ANYBODY who does not agree with them and subscribe to their ways of life... which puts America at the very top of their list, regardless of where our military is.

Thinking otherwise is very naive.
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It's old news now.


I've barely even turned the news on in the past few days because I know exactly what the focus will be....and nothing will have changed.
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I don't understand something. These fanatic extremists are working from what intolerant playbook which dictates that the "infidel" must be destroyed above all. There is no middle ground. Do "moderate" Muslims read from the same Koran? Where are their voices?
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Are you implying that if we weren't over there with a military presence, these EXTREMISTS would suddenly be ok with us and leave us alone?

Their hatred and violence is to ANYBODY who believes differently than them. Look at the hundreds of individual terrorist attacks over the last decade. Almost every single 1 of them was carried out in countries with zero military presence in "their" lands. It has nothing to do with "our wars abroad". It has everything to do with the fact that they want to kill ANYBODY who does not agree with them and subscribe to their ways of life... which puts America at the very top of their list, regardless of where our military is.

Thinking otherwise is very naive.


And more than anything else, they hate America and they hate Americans.
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Generally speaking of course.
But generalities exist for a reason. Much like the effectiveness of profiling.
I am sure America will get "it" someday. I just hope before it is a smoldering ruin.
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I don't think "Boston Strong" has ANYTHING to do with guns as your post
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All of a sudden guns are ok for them.
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Just posting to show off my new avatar.
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The saturation point was reached the evening of the marathon end.

The constant updating of police activity the ENTIRE day of the capture was irrational. Especially when the hundreds of police were just standing around talking to each other.

But, media sensationalism is nothing new.
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I am sure America will get "it" someday. I just hope before it is a smoldering ruin.
Some are proactive... some are reactive.

In the vast majority of life and death situations, being reactive means you waited too long.


I'm not sure what percentage would actually admit to it if asked but I would like to know how many of the people locked in their houses hoping that this asswipe didn't come through the door were wishing they had a gun nearby to protect themselves and their families.

It's funny how opinions seem to change once reality surpasses idealism.

It apparently took almost 9,000... that's a 9, with three 0s after it... 9,000 law enforcement officials including hundreds of armored vehicles, the FBI, and the National Guard to catch a 19 year old kid with some homemade explosives, a pistol, and absolutely zero combat training. But hey, if you want to believe that a few local LEOs will protect you when somebody has the intent of harming you... go for it, just don't try to force force your willful ignorance of reality on the rest of us.
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I don't think "Boston Strong" has ANYTHING to do with guns as your post

suggests.
Betcha just about every one in Watertown on that fateful day wishes they had one if he came a'knockin.
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