No, Mr. Obama, America is not safer.
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Quit telling us how to think, Bammy. Can’t you take a break from trying to control us for a moment while we celebrate this capture?
The stupid. It hurts.
Did the police act stupidly, again? Is the perp still a terrorist? Rush to what judgement, you buffoon?
"Grew up" here? That claim is misleading, and Obama ought not be allowed to get away with it. It may apply to Dzhokhar to a substantial degree -- about 8 when he arrived -- but he "looks up to" his older brother Tamerlan [New York Times]. Tamerlan didn't arrive here until he was about 15 (immigrated in 2002, died at age 26 -- Boston Marathon bombings - Wikipedia). Five years after arriving he told a photographer who was covering his boxing, "I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them." [The Guardian]
Besides, mere residence doesn't determine culture. For better or worse the internet allows people easy access to whichever cultures they prefer.
“Obviously tonight there are still many unanswered questions: Among them, why did young men who grew up and studied here, as part of our communities and our country, resort to such violence?”
Uh, because a very large percentage of the Muslim world hates Western civilization and wants to destroy it, but are too cowardly to do anything about it other than bomb innocent women and children?