Nuclear Blast on TV's '24' Causes Fallout for Fox (PC crybaby alert)

ABC News ^ | 1/15/07

[Paloma_55]

Suitcase nukes?

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I am only operating off conversations I have had with a friend who spent ~30 years as a special forces officer and intelligence operative. He is convinced that there are multiple nukes within the borders of the USA that were here for quite a while. They may not be suitcase sized though.

Suppose this is not true? Well, do you assume the best or the worst when planning for things?

[Paloma_55]

The lesser of two evils....

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The show made me think about how sometimes evil can cause good.

Its a hard thing to cope with, but if you shoot a guy in the head and by doing so, stop him from delivering the critical piece of a nuclear weapon, you have done something that is immensely good.

Not always an obvious thing to people.... sometimes you have to do bad things for the better good.

[Paloma_55]

In other words, TORTURE WORKED!"

If often does...

...as it did with John McCain.

Your post gave me an idea... I now anticipate that Jack Bauer, somewhere during this season, is going to pop like a time-release capsule and assassinate the president. When he does, the Chinese ambassador is going to see it on TV and get a small wrinkle in his eye, smile slightly, and then call someone in China with a calm, confident voice.

[ichabod1]

I'm just saying that the moslems I've known, at least over the last 20 years or so, were not trustworthy individuals. I've tried not to generalize overbroadly. I know one young lady of Iranian extraction whom I would trust implicitly. She is Christian. That isn't WHY I trust her, I trust her because she will look you in the eye and make clear honest statements with no obfuscation or dissimulation.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Sorry but I simply do not believe that. Certainly not "suitcase" nukes.

[SaintDismas]

I get you. It's just that I can't help but think about how Curtis was trained to kill these bastards, and to think that this was the same subhuman that cut off the heads of his fellow soldiers (my mind's eye sees Nick Berg, my ears hears those death screams) and the duplicitnous here with an American killing an American soldier (was Curtis a marine?) to save Assad is a little much, as much as my mind agrees with the fact that we are talking about one man's life vs. hundreds, maybe thousands. My son is a Marine, please excuse my emotional outburst.

[Paloma_55]

I have to rescind any assertion that it was suitcase nukes he referred to.

He referred to nukes.

And even there, I have to admit that its hard to tell when someone is speculating versus operating from hard data.

[justshutupandtakeit]

If such weapons were in this country under the control of a terrorist group they would have been used by now. And after numerous threats we have seen the capacity of these groups for action inside this country decline.

Now I would believe that such groups may have purchased what they believed were the components for such weapons.

[Conservative4Ever]

Is there any way I could designate that all my tax money, every cent, go to the U.S. Military and none of it to worthless domestic programs?

Alas, no. But I will add it to my list of things I would pay to see. :)

[Sam Gamgee]

Actually that IS a good point.

[Sam Gamgee]

Heh, I'm with you. Moslems are taught to deceive for a greater end.