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Thanks for the links, swarthyguy. I'm not convinced. Too many parties involved are invested in undermining the Bush administration. In one story the boy's Pakistani, the other he's Palestinian. Our government was never meant to be big enough to cover every eventuality, any more than local police can be there when a burglar shows up. It's us, Americans like Eunice Stone, or the terrorists.

>>Too many parties involved are invested in undermining the Bush administration.

I view it more as evidence/foreknowledge on a relatively widespread basis in certain muslim communities in the west, in addition to the ME.

>>It's us, Americans like Eunice Stone, or the terrorists.

Connie Chung asked the local chief if Eunice Stone was going to be investigated. Sheesh.

The sister of one of the trio made a statement slamming Georgia and the South. Didn't think it particularly helped her case; Georgians certainly are not going to think better of women in hijabs if they heard her. Had to chuckle at how oblivious she was to the impression she was making.

Thanks for the links, swarthyguy. I'm not convinced. Too many parties involved are invested in undermining the Bush administration. In one story the boy's Pakistani, the other he's Palestinian. Our government was never meant to be big enough to cover every eventuality, any more than local police can be there when a burglar shows up.

I'm not sure why you should refuse to believe it because you imagine some connection to Bush. I haven't seen anyone say that some kid in school should have caused the government to go on alert (although I'd say that nowadays it should). And even if there were people drawing that conclusion, a fact and the conclusions you draw from it are different things.

But I'll admit that I think the proper conclusion is "anti-Bush", but not the way you have in mind. The fact that the kids all knew means it was common knowledge to the Muslims, And what did they tell the authorities? Nothing. And Bush prattles on about how we should be tolerant and understanding of the poor backlashed Muslims. They deserved a backlash. Heck, a repeat of the internment thing would've been unduly generous. But instead, we're supposed to demonstrate our goodwill for them. Evendently they thought it was better to let thousands of Americans die than to stop thousands of Americans from dying. Screw 'em.