Re: off topic....., but still

Posted by Pamela McCorduck on May 03, 2011; 7:27pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/off-topic-but-still-tp6327815p6328541.html

Reality check. In Manhattan security has been ramped up seriously in anticipation of a possible retaliatory move by whatever fragment of al Qaeda thinks the guy deserves to be avenged. Police and dogs were thick in the Times Square subway station at midday.

Pamela

On May 3, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

Look at the bright side, Owen:  the probability just increased significantly that many, many more bigots will find themselves removed from the equation.

I can just hear it now: choruses  of  "Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching as to War!"  

Offset, of course, by equally stirring refrains of الله أكبر  !

--Doug

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On May 3, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

> The world's a better place without him.
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> ~Doug Roberts

Not yet.  Indeed, I don't feel great having stirred the hornets nest in a difficult balance Pakistan keeps between their various factions.

But the truth of the situation is that a mass murder was protected or at least tolerated by a nuclear power.

Boom.

 -- Owen

> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
> "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.
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