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Boston Bombing: Let's Focus On the ‘Who,’ Not the ‘Why’
National Review ^ | 04/16/2013 | Peter Hegseth

Posted on 04/16/2013 2:49:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/16/2013 2:49:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Everything I needed to know about who was learned on September 11th


2 posted on 04/16/2013 2:52:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: SeekAndFind
Why?

Because Jihad hasn't been terminated, with prejudice.

4 posted on 04/16/2013 2:57:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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RE: Everything I needed to know about who was learned on September 11th

What about Oklahoma City?


5 posted on 04/16/2013 2:58:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Though “why” is interesting in some cases, I agree that WHO is the critical component.


6 posted on 04/16/2013 2:58:54 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is pretty good evidence there were Middle Easterners involved in that one, too.


7 posted on 04/16/2013 3:00:10 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Why” is an easy question. It is the same reason why an evil thug murdered 20 children and 7 adults at an elementary school, why an evil thug murdered more than a dozen people at the theater in Aurora, and why a group of terrorists murdered 3,000 people at the World Trade Center. The why is because they are pure evil. The solution is to kill them or lock them and those like them up forever. We don’t need to understand evil, nor will decent people ever understand such people (Obama might understand, but I’m talking about people on our side in this battle).

“Who” is a question that will also be answered eventually. We may have suspicions or a limited number of choices, but the truth will come out soon enough. The key question though is what we will do about it. If we respond in a way that rewards the terrorists, then we will experience more similar attacks and lose more of our children to evil. If we respond in a way that makes it unprofitable to plan and organize these attacks, then there will be fewer masterminds putting these attacks together for the thugs who carry them out. I’d like to be optimistic, but that decision is in Obama’s hands.


8 posted on 04/16/2013 3:00:33 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A lot of the why can be traced to the current occupant of the White House, just like a lot of the why for 9/11 could be traced to the occupant of the White House when Al-Qaeda was able to plan and rehearse their evil acts when Clinton and his cohorts refused to acknowledge that, terrorism and terrorists are real, and they’re out to get us, anyway they can.

So, of course, we do need to know who did the Boston attacks, but, not looking at the why is just going to invite more of the same terrorism.


9 posted on 04/16/2013 3:01:50 PM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: SeekAndFind

To ask why is to give credence to evil and to the insane. That’s what libs do because they want to understand the insane, probably because they ARE insane and they know it. I don’t care why. I just care who. Find them and kill them. That’s all that matters.


10 posted on 04/16/2013 3:04:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: SeekAndFind
What about Oklahoma City?

Who is John Doe #2?

11 posted on 04/16/2013 3:05:31 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Pollster1

‘Some men set the whole earth on fire just to watch it burn’


12 posted on 04/16/2013 3:09:31 PM PDT by STD (One day closer to street justice)
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To: SeekAndFind

The reason for Obama’s “why” is that if a Muslim is fingered, then he will be excused due to having to deal with poverty, etc, etc.


13 posted on 04/16/2013 3:12:22 PM PDT by aimhigh ( Guns do not kill people. Abortion kills people.)
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To: Sirius Lee; knarf

As an aside ( but related to this bombing ), has the culprit of the Atlanta Olympic Centennial Park bombing in 1996 ever been captured?

The originally fingered the hapless Richard Jewell but let him go eventually.

If I remember correctly, they eventually implicated Eric Robert Rudolph.


14 posted on 04/16/2013 3:16:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Eric Rudolph (spit) pled guilty.

The definition of “hapless” is “unfortunate”. The fact that Richard Jewell found the bomb, alerted police, and helped get many out of danger is a reason to be highly fortunate that he was there that day. RIP Mr. Jewell.


15 posted on 04/16/2013 3:19:43 PM PDT by Yossarian ("All the charm of Nixon. All the competency of Carter." - SF Chronicle comment post on Obama)
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To: Sirius Lee
Who is John Doe #2?

Padilla.

I couldn't care less about the why. I'm not into hugs and kumbaya and couldn't care less about the why. It's high to time quit molly coddling these terrorists like Hasan and stop sending our hard earned money to commie countries.

16 posted on 04/16/2013 3:20:00 PM PDT by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind

While making a good and obvious point, (look to the “who”, not the “why”) he still is pretty tepid in the way he expresses it. He does point out Obama’s re$lexive coupling o$ who and why, he ends with the lame “I’m not trying to cast aspersions on the President”.
Well, I AM casting aspersions. His introduction o$ “why” intentionally opens a door to another decade o$ pointless,
deliberately evasive, and counterproductive pseudo-dialogue
which is only designed to save the skins o$ the wannabe political players like CAIR and the now temporarily-quieted-down loudmouth Mosque radicals in most major US cities.
One thing is certain-—this Administration will NEVER see itsel$ as remotely responsible on any level $or this horrendous event: that’s why they made sure to send out the surrogates to “explain” what it “could be”, all in the service, to use another Obama phrase, o$ “not jumping to conclusions”.


17 posted on 04/16/2013 3:20:26 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh, someone please post that clip of Hitlery Clinton saying (about the Bengazi attack) “Oh, what does it matter now?”


18 posted on 04/16/2013 3:21:03 PM PDT by blu
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When we respond to them and they start crying, we’ll have to point that out. “We didn’t start the fire”.


19 posted on 04/16/2013 3:32:14 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: aimhigh

Of course. Nevermond that almost every moslem terrorist has come from a background of wealth and privilege back in the moslem world. All attend elite schools, travel the world, and have family money. The broke ones are laughed at.

The shoe bomber is an example.


20 posted on 04/16/2013 3:38:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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