Category: Terrorism, Security, and Defense Reform
Thursday, February 16, 2006
John Robb says we should be expecting another al Qaeda attack on the US in the near future.
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OK, could I point out that Osama kind of said one was coming in that same statement? Doesn't exactly reuquire a degree in rocket surgery.
I've been less than impressed with his insight. It seems like a lot of semi-obvious things combined with liberal use of neologisms and sui generis authority.
His tortured analysis basically says "well, they probably will do something we haven't thought of, because it's tough to top 9/11 and they've been disrupted, so they'll try something against soft points of our infrastructure that have a large impact." Of course, there were any number of anti-terrorism experts saying this on 9/12/01.
Has anybody looked into his background? It seems a trifle bragadocious for somebody who's "been there" and "done that".
What we should be doing is: constructing several
huge concentration camps across the USA to put
"terrorist type" people in, after the next terrorist attack. There wont be any other way to stop them.
Yes, just like the camps they built for the American -Japanese citizens in WW2.
Wrong, unjust? Perhaps, but we'll have to do it to beat them and save our economy. If we don't do something like this, our country could be lost.
"What we should be doing is: constructing several huge concentration camps across the USA to put "terrorist type" people in, after the next terrorist attack."
Yeah, locking up hundreds of thousands of innocent Arab-Americans is a great plan. It's not like that would give a huge morale and propaganda boost to fundamentalist Islamists or anything, all for an act that would have absolutely no practical impact (how many acts of sabotage were prevented by locking up Japanese-Americans?) and would betray the fundamental values we're supposed to be standing up for to boot.
"Terrorist type people"? Yeesh.
Locking up Arabs would have been *real* effective against Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph and Ted Kaczynski.
Unless you include white males as "terrorist type" people.