“Ortiz is Done”
Margery Eagan of the Boston Herald thinks poetic justice has been served.
Just days ago, speculation was rampant. Gov. Carmen Ortiz? U.S. Sen. Carmen Ortiz?
Well, that’s all over now.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz is done. Finished. Forever linked to bringing the full and frightening weight of the federal government down upon a 26-year-old computer genius — and a suicide risk.
Is she? At first glance you might think so. After all another article says “Emotional Carmen Ortiz `terribly upset’ over Swartz suicide”. But on closer reading the article the reasons for her distress are rather different from what you may think. “She is ‘terribly upset’ she is being blamed for his suicide.”
Perhaps Swartz thought that by committing suicide he would make a point. One reference says that some people commit suicide thinking they will make others realize the extent of the injustice committed against them. They can almost imagine those who wronged them repenting for their transgressions from a viewpoint beyond the grave. It’s called “after-death fantasy”.
This type of suicidal tendency is often accompanied by “after-death” fantasies in which the now dead individual, after taking their own life, gets to view the reactions and grief of those they left behind. In these fantasies the people that have caused the psychological pain feel punished by the suicide and in their grieving they demonstrate great remorse for having driven the person to take their own life.
The problem is that people who don’t feel sympathy for the living are unlikely to feel sympathy for the dead. Truly ruthless people in general and sociopaths in particular never feel sorry for anybody but themselves. Blaming such people is as pointless as faulting a shark for biting you. The only person you can ever blame for being bitten by such is yourself: for venturing into waters infested by sharks without a powerhead in your possession, or into a dark alley without a clean pair of heels.
Here’s another classic headline from Boston, this time from the Boston Globe. “US inadvertently creates a terrorist haven in Mali”. Whoops.
This catastrophe did not “just happen.” It is the direct result of an episode that may at first seem unrelated: the US-led intervention in Libya last year. Rarely in recent times has there been a more vivid example of how such interventions can produce devastating unexpected results.
Actually it was not expected. The Founding Fathers foresaw the possibility that one thing might lead to another long ago. One of the reasons they vested the power to declare war in Congress was to make sure the proposal got debated and to force politicians to put their names to the act. But now we have “kinetic military action”, “leading from behind” and “responsibility to protect” in place of war. And besides, who needs the Constitution any more?
But if anyone thinks that the persons who gave you Libya are feeling chastened and guilty for their reckless actions, think again. As Senator Ted Cruz put it, the president is “feeling right now high on his own power”. Libya’s history now. It’s on to something else.
The defect in proposals to appeal to the humanity of al-Qaeda, Hamas or Hezbollah to bring peace to the world is the assumption they will respond to acts of decency. That they’ll feel sorry for you. That is unlikely but hard men might respond to their own self-interests for nothing so makes a predator more polite than the knowledge that his prey likewise has teeth.
In the Islamic world it is often said that “there are four pillars which support the world…the wisdom of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.” There is no admiration for weakness in that maxim; nor expectation of pity, just a recognition of different kinds of strength.
The wolves tell the sheep the world is a kind and loving place. But they would say that, wouldn’t they. To support the world of Allah four pillars are needed, but to keep the Big Tent up so the leeches can suck the victims dry case only two pillars are necessary: “the cynicism of the ruthless and credulity of the chump”.
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….Had Mr. Swartz lived, been incarcerated ( or not ), he probably would have learned and looked back with rueful irony. Now that eventuality is foreclosed. When I patrolled the Golden Gate Bridge, almost a thousand folks had jumped to their death. But 11 had survived. Not one of the eleven came back to jump again. Not until one fellow, a firechiefs son, finished it with a second dive.
…Eat your desert first…………..
Ah yes, but are the four pillars of Islam made of Styrofoam? I suspect we shall soon find the answer is yes.
A non event for everyone involved and the end of an incompetent -wannabe politicians future-2 futures in fact.
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How much does PJM pay its bloggers and how many shares do they own in PJM?
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Can we have some honest transparency about PJM
Who funds it-what are PJMs finances?
Responding to MarchH’s post #11 from the previous thread, concerning Hermann Lons and his novel Warwolf.
MarchH wrote, contra my assertion that Lons was miscaste by the Nazis as one of their own, “Perhaps the Nazis enjoyed Lons because in “Der Werewolf” he depicted Jews as unscrupulous speculators, usurping the land of honest German Volk….”
In Lons’s story nobody comes off well: not Catholics, not Protestants, not Jews, and, most especially, not even the villagers who, in rising up to defend themselves against marauding Catholic and Protestant war bands, become just as ruthless and evil as their antognists–to the extent that they come to relish their encounters with those groups because, in annihilating them, they enrich themselves with the loot plundered from the men they killed They don’t stop killing because it is such a profitable (hence enjoyable) activity. Not incidentally, many Jews were indeed unscrupulous land speculators during the Thirty Years War; just as many Catholics and Protestants, and, no doubt, many villagers as well, were merciless killers who wreaked havoc and devastation on their enemies and who butchered each other and innocent civilians wholesale. That’s what lies at the root of the “dark humor” I mentioned concerning the good German villagers who devolve so precipitously into barbarism by the end of the story. That’s what war can do to populations, and that’s the point that Lons was making–and which the Nazis missed. As I said: nobody comes off well in his tale.
3. Victor
Try this wikipedia reference . Not very mysterious.
Also, as an addendum to my comments in #4 above, I would ask MarchH: did you read Warwolf, or are you reacting only to Paul Johnson’s critique of it? I am not being snarky here. I have not read Johnson’s History of the Jews. I greatly respect and admire Johnson but it seems from what you wrote that Johnson also missed the point Lons was making in his novel: that even–perhaps especially–the good “Volk” of rural Germany could be morally corrupted and set on the path of evil by the circumstances of war.
Well Victor, that is a good question. I will do my best to Illuminate you.
Behind it all is a Trilateral set of Councils who deal on Foreign Relations. The Order of the World may look somewhat New, however behind its seemingly modern edifice, you will find ancient and low cost—even Free, Masonry. Over in the Orient we have a Grand Lodge whose Templar is guarded by valiant Knights. They have solved their problem of health care by making deals with Hospitallers.
The Orthodox opinions of the East are not without influence, however key decisions are made to the sounds of Mackerel being Snapped. Just to give you the Hebe jeebies, a certain Jewish carpenter is responsible for the cry to Hail the hostess Mary who just happens to be his mama-san. You will be made welcome if you desire, but since the structure is well-lighted you must leave your sulfurous Luciferian sticks outside.
Any other questions?
Ortiz’s supporters will be outraged at the injustice done to her. It was an example of racist sexist abuse on a par with Rick Lazio crossing the stage and handing a piece of paper to Hillary Clinton. They will not be satisfied until she receives a public apology from John Boehner, and he is just the man to do it.
I was looking at the map of the elections results by county. If we granted statehood to a half dozen metropolitan areas, with guaranteed shiny new Democratic US Senate seats and jobs for the boys, then the Donks would lose the Electoral College and we’d have a chance of pushing through my favorite constitutional reform, no votes for tax eaters. Give Cleveland-Cuyahoga statehood. Give South Florida, Broward-Dade statehood. Give Cook County statehood. Give the Detroit corridor of Wayne-Washtenow-Oakland-Genesee statehood. Make them an offer they cannot refuse and then cut off the flow of power and money.
Wretchard,
Over recent threads it has become apparent that the volume of the deranged has increased. The abuse of your or Roger Simon’s bandwidth is not my concern, except insofar as I value the health of a resource I use. The decline of the signal to noise ratio is however something which as a consumer I wish to note. Can we please get back something like the tools you had painstakingly developed to empower commentators with Ignore and Reputation features?
Isn’t the tale of the lovely Carmen Ortiz simply yet another recycled old story?
Even as the Soviets pushed westwards and the US & its allies pushed eastwards and bombs rained down from above, there were still greasy-pole climbers trying to shimmy on up towards Adolf. Why? Some of the German nomenklatura could see which way the mess was going to end and started looking for bolt holes. But others kept trying to climb the increasingly shaky ladder. Why?
Today’s world is beset by forces which are even more destructive than the Red Army. If the Islamists don’t get us, Bernanke will. And if we duck those bullets, most western nations still face the collapse of their unsustainable Ponzi ‘social security’ schemes. Straighten that out, and we still have the huge problem of hollowed out economies which depend on Chinese near-slave labor making the necessary goods which we no longer can, and for which we have nothing left to trade. Fix that problem and there would still be all the problems of a failed Culture to finish us off. Why would anyone want to be on the bridge of that ship?
The only possible conclusion is that the fair Carmen is an idiot.
Victor & Dave:
WTF?
Well, SBW. One is a Cuckoo, the other a Mockingbird. ;^)
OT: Here’s another case of some people being “more equal” than others. Remember that Journal News outlet in the northeast which published a list & map of local gun owners? In the past week the households of two such gun owners were broken into.
The thieves went for the guns, gun permits, & gun safes in both cases. Amazingly, the local police can’t spot the connection (and responsibility) to the news outlet’s map.
Go figure.
http://www.examiner.com/article/second-home-listed-by-journal-news-burglarized-guns-stolen
This same news outlet was full of righteous indignation when someone published a map of where its employees live. “How dare the plebians threaten *us*?!”
Talk about needing to keep your powder dry …
12
You realize they will use these thefts to “prove” that it is “dangerous” to keep guns in the house. They will say, “See how these guns are now in the hands of criminals. It is all the fault of the owner.” They will not comprehend their guilt.
WHILE McNUTT PARADED
DOLPHINS SUFFOCATED!
Yes folks, while Marcia McNutt, leader of the Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) preened and, donning a majorette uniform to become her alter ego, Marcia McNumbnutts, led repeated seismic runs, oil spewed from the Macondo 252 well. That oil coated the lungs of Flipper and his friends with an oily, greasy, mucus like coating that suffocated them!
Dead dolphins washed ashore in the hundreds. She should be fined $4,300 per barrel, at a flow rate of 53,000 barrels per day, for each 24 hour delay in “plugging the damn hole” she caused! And if she cannot pay, she should be stripped naked and paraded down Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, then tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail!
And on the subject of guns and mental health issues, perhaps we can get Gabby Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, to opine on an issue involving NASA’s Astronaut Corps, upon which his twin brother Scott had some strong opinions, namely Lisa Nowak, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak guns, adult diapers, kidnapping, adultery and allegations of drinking on the job.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/08/08/shuttle.commander/index.html
WARNING TO PURVEYORS OF THE POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION!!
When Lisa Nowak (nee Caputo) was a six year old being inspired by the Apollo Program, I was a 20 year old thermodynamicist with Grumman Aerospace (nee Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp), the builder of the Lunar Excursion Module Eagle that carried Neil Armstrong and Buss Aldrin to the surface of the Moon and then returned them safely to the Earth.
Jusy saying, BRING IT ON!
The crux of the issue with risk management versus risk mitigation is that there is a concrete cost from proactivity, and a possible (but possibly much higher) cost to reactivity. This is a point lost on the low-information demographic that is the core voting bloc at this point. The blue model has a fatal flaw in that it promises to predict and prevent the situation, rather than provide tools to recover.
Ortiz misread the mental state of Swartz. The psychiatrist in Colorado misread the “danger signs”. http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22378331/theater-shooting-victims-wife-sues-holmes-psychiatrist
The truth is that we are not far past tea leaves. The blue model pretends we are, it is a denial of individual variability leading to large catastrophies.
“Where that trade-off should lie depends on the relative costs of false positives v. false negatives” http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/178/1/84.full, but we cannot accurately (or from this article better than two out of three times) actually make a good prediction. This is where the denial on both sides is evident.
In the gun control debate one side is arguing that legal restrictions will reduce violence (against the data), while the other is arguing that mental health efforts will do better (contra same). The one side is actually arguing that the cost of false positives in gun control (restricting individual rights to bear arms) is a small price to pay, while the other is saying the false positives of mental health efforts (to include involuntary “hospitalization”) are the smaller price.
The fact that neither will change outcomes is immaterial, the cost is the goal!
Notice to the faithful. Did you catch how I got a hint from above to not cross the line into hubris? It is Buzz Aldrin, not Buss Aldrin.
FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION
Just another opportunity to pry the Jewish vote from the Dem plantation, and another warning that will go unheeded.
To support the world of Allah four pillars are needed, but to keep the Big Tent up so the leeches can suck the victims dry case only two pillars are necessary: “the cynicism of the ruthless and credulity of the chump”.
Dead on! You got a way with words.
“It is Buzz Aldrin, not Buss Aldrin.”
Yeah. And everyone called it “The Lehm”; it was simply the Lunar Module as the “Excursion” middle name had been dropped very early on as the word excursion was deemed to suggest that NASA was sending some guys on vacation.
This is an example of the Left being hoisted by its own petard.
People as symbols mean so very much to them. Lacking substance, all they have are symbols.
A single deserter defeats the cause of an entire army. A murderer for whom the evidence of his guilt is undeniable denies the crime and thus indicts the entire criminal justice system. A few people who are undeniably nuts but occasionally have moments of lucidity justifys dismantling the entire mental health care system. And then a few mentally ill people who go on shooting rampages then justify everyone else being deprived of their civil rights.
So now a man committing a symbolic act – enabling wider access to data that was freely avilable for the asking anyway – and then committing suicide – has shot down a rising Leftist star.
“US inadvertently creates a terrorist haven in Mali”.
It is a strange world.
France, our ally, is taking a big chance putting small numbers of combat troops on a thin supply line in a despirate effort to prevent Al Queda terrorists from taking over an entire country. In the meantime we are supplying Egypt, the most powerful country in the region, who should be alarmed about terrorists in their back yard, with another shipment of top line battle weapons.
In the Suez war Israel fought Egypt in the French backed operation to capture the Suez. They won and were forced to withdraw by the US. One result was that Israel partnered with France to develop the French built Dassault Mirage III fighter jet. In June 1967 Israel launched it’s entire fleet of Mirages destroying the Egyptian airforce within a few hours. We have since rebuilt it.
Egypt is terribly upset that the French are interfering with the establishment of the terrorist haven in Mali. They have launched their Salafi street thugs to protest and Morsi condemned the French action. Still the US has done nothing to help the French, who are lacking in transport and drone planes which we have in abundance (the few drones they have are Israeli made).
So we are backing Egypt, ignoring the French, and really ticked at the Israelis which leaves the guys who destroyed the twin towers, and are currently killing our people in Algeria, in a pretty good position.
Carmen Ortiz and Barak Obama live in a fantasy land. They do things but do not know why they are doing them. They cannot tell fools gold from the real thing. Doors open, limos whisk them to important places, it is all good. They are going somewhere and we, the great unwashed, could not possibly understand.
There’s a lady who’s sure
All that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Oh and Victor, we know who is behind it. ?מבין
There is a mechanism within the culture of Islam that is not really grasped by the infidel world. It is sometimes labelled “inshallah fatalism”. Whenever you hear a Muslim utter “inshallah”( “by the will of Allah”) he expresses this mechansim. In short, there is no real free will – all good things – all bad things – and all things in between are decided by Allah, who can be indifferent or even malicious.
This subtle-seeming cultural tic means that if an “infidel” ever grants something to a Muslim – credit goes to Allah, not the “infidel”. If we cede land or payments or tsunami aide to the Muslims – we don’t get the credit, Allah does. If anything, infidel largesse, any acts of kindness, aide, concessions, etc. are all merely evidence of Allah’s favor for the Muslim, and for Islam’s contempt of the “infidel”.
This is additionally reinforced by the deep sense of superiority (despite all evidence to the contrary) inculcating in Muslims by Islam. Whether it’s hospitals and drivable roads in Afghanistan, awwarding Iraq to the Shia majority, $2 billion in Tsunami relief to Indonesia, or $2 billion in earthquake aide to Pakistan, it ALL translates into zero brownie points for the inferior West.
Our Western stance is viewed as tribute paid by inferiors, who have been manipulated by Allah to drain their own unworthy pockets for the benefit of his pious Muslims. Islam gets reinforced. Allah’s supremacy gets reinforced. Our inferiority gets reinforced. Western expectations get thwarted, and such largesses simply magnifies the chasm between inimical societies.
It is a very cozy arrangement, and “inshallah fatalism” is a mechanism that helps Islam to flourish even when it is utterly failing its people by our standards. What apoears as failure in the West – the lopsided societies, the preaching of hatred, the terrorism, universal and utter corruption, etc, all of it is actually Islamic success – designed to perpeturate Islam. This is something Western analysts barely appreciate. Watch how the David Goldmans even here at PJM always like to explain how Islam is failing in places like Egypt. I don’t think he grasps how much calamities like Egypt, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, will all solidify Islam, reinforce Islam, and dissolve all other ideologies in competetion with Islam.
Islam is on a roll, in no small measure due to the abject failure of Western analysts to graps its mechanisms of hatred and control. Unless we begin to relentlessly work to topple and undermine Islam everywhere we find it, Islam will emerge much stronger, and we wil be much weaker after this latest Jihad.
MD @ 24 : I think it’s about the same with the chinese mindset : luck, destiny and all.No real free will.
”individuals with an internal locus of control attribute the cause or control of events to something inside of themselves (they are the captains of their ships) while individuals with an external locus of control believe that they are not in control of their environment and the outcomes are instead controlled by luck, destiny, or the power of others.”
see : http://preview.tinyurl.com/bdd2xko
regards
SF
Dagger @ 17 – Regarding risk management. The Europeans are very big on “The Precautionary Principle” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle , so much so that Thad Allen incessantly parroted “First do no harm” as if he was some later day Hippocrates.
It seems the EU has never heard of Good Samariatan Laws, “The Golden Hour”, First Aid or CPR/AED. Making the first choice to “do nothing” protects the individual from exposing himself to criticism for breaking from the pack and being an individual, individualism being so “Politically Incorrect” and all. But the result does strongly resemble that “deer in the headlights look”!
Rugged Individualism is so damn “AMERICAN”!!! What do those Americans think they are, EXCEPTIONAL?
Paul @ 21 – NASA might not want to call it an excursion, but to us it was just a walk on the Moon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45PoI6sKC8
Okay kids, it’s time to learn why you should always wink back to the late Neil Armstrong, the Man On The Moon. Pay close attention for the word “alarm”!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg80HZsv_js
Jack Garman an “old man” at age 24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Garman B
Dagger,
“The truth is that we are not far past tea leaves. The blue model pretends we are, it is a denial of individual variability leading to large catastrophies.”
Very well put!
“the cynicism of the ruthless and credulity of the chump”.
You forgot the silence of the few good people and the moral corruption i.e relativism of the majority.
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare”
Mark Twain
#9
Well said.
@24. Morton Doodslag
Your insightful comment about Arab fatalism is accurate but it doesn’t go far enough in explaining how far removed the Sunni Arab worldview is from reality.
The often called for “reformation” of Sunni Islam was already completed by the 11th Century but in a way that is nothing less than shocking to Westerners. Sunni jurisprudence completely ejected reason and natural law from the human experience. An apple falling from a tree might hit the ground this time but the next time one falls it may go sideways or even launch itself skyward.
If physical laws do not exist then neither can other natural laws. The bedrock natural law principle of human society – “do no unecessary harm to others…” is meaningless. To the closed Muslim mind reality is completely contained in the Koran and the biography/sayings of Mohammed. If Mohammed says that robbery, rape and murder are Ok then nothing more need ever be considered under any circumstances.
Not every Mohammedan has this worldview, but more than enough Sunni Arabs do live their lives this way to make it a major concern when dealing with them.
Here’s some references:
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis Amazon book
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist 2 part audio lecture
Prosecutorial abuse and malfeasance is usually rewarded these days, look at Patrick Fitzgerald and Scooter Libby. Feh. Martha Stewart. Even Lance Armstrong. Even the guilty need to be prosecuted in an appropriate and fair manner. The Amirault cases in Boston, OMG, and whats her name the prosecutress there, the entire state apparat of Massachusetts? Ortiz? I have no idea.
Swartz, I dunno anything about him or the case, and you can’t learn from reading the MSM. Suicide seems less attractive in such cases than homicide, I’ll start with that. If you’re going to be an activist, buy the ticket and take the ride, to be an activist and also a delicate flower, is a baaaad combination. I’m not even sure what he did that was being prosceuted, stole – that is, republished without permission – a few articles from the obnoxious journal site JStor? The actual monetary damage there might be five cents, .. but again I lack details, or the bandwidth to look into it further. So it goes.
W: Great point you made here: “The problem is that people who don’t feel sympathy for the living are unlikely to feel sympathy for the dead. Truly ruthless people in general and sociopaths in particular never feel sorry for anybody but themselves. Blaming such people is as pointless as faulting a shark for biting you. The only person you can ever blame for being bitten by such is yourself: for venturing into waters infested by sharks without a powerhead in your possession, or into a dark alley without a clean pair of heels.”
Morton Doodslag/24, SF/25, Peter Boston/29 re: Muslim mindset and fatalism. Very interesting. I speculate that Allah plays a role in Islam like the “Big Man” in a tribal culture, from whom all blessings and tribulations (unpredictably) flow. When the vagaries of life can be explained as the whims of a psychotic deity, it is both intellectually efficient (if vacuous) and emotionally rewarding (not our fault). …This “Big Man” idea may be less present in “chinese mindset” where the forces of destiny are less personified. But what do I know?
While I may not know anything, I certainly do hope that this sad story of Aaron Swartz puts an end to Ms. Ortiz’ ambitions for higher (or any) office. Off-topic (but possibly interesting because it involves Massachusetts, and more particularly the curious lack of regulatory and media attention to a national health scandal arising in their own backyard) is the New England Compounding Corporation, which managed to screw up its “sterile” manufacturing of injectable steroids so that customers all over the country became ill with fungal meningitis: hundreds sick, dozens dead. What are Governor Patrick and Ms. Ortiz’ office doing about that?
You will all feel better after reading this one:
from the Grey Lady through …. /. (slashdot)
‘The criminal court’s ruling said the defendant, Yossawarit Chuklom, had not specifically mentioned the king when he gave a speech in 2010 to a large group of people protesting the military-backed government then in power.
But by making a gesture of being muzzled — placing his hands over his mouth — Mr. Yossawarit had insinuated that he was talking about the king, the court ruled.
“Even though the defendant did not identify His Majesty the king directly,” the court ruled, Mr. Yossawarit’s speech “cannot be interpreted any other way.” ‘
http://tinyurl.com/a3ru5lj
SF
So now Obama has an excuse he can use to trade the sheik for the living hostages this time unlike the Bengahzi fiasco?
Josh @ 30 – I think the name you are looking for is Martha Coakley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Coakley , who lost the “Ted Kennedy” Senate seat to Scott Brown, who in turn lost it to Fauxcohantas.
The Massachusetts of today ain’t the Massachusettts of my Puritan forefathers! Damn un-Enlightment-ed immigrants!
And you’ll LOVE the comment in the dissent of the SCOTUS decision in Coakley (as Massachusetts) v. EPA that all this nonsense about rising sea levels in Massachusetts is based on a single location! Of course the sea level is higher there, haven’t you seen the Great White Whale, Teddy K. himself, swimming off Hyannis? A rising sea level there is a trivial example of the Archimedes Principle. The fatter he got, the higher the tide!
“Ortiz is done.”
We can hope. Ortiz wanted private gain—her political career and the vast wealth from corruption it offers—through her use of public power as a prosector. She wanted to be famous, like some others who have recently drawn media attention. Now she is.
“ inadvertently creates a terrorist haven in Mali”
Why don’t terrorists inadvertently create anti-terrorist organizations?
If the US bombs Pakistan, terrorists arise to strike back at us. Where are all the private US citizens waging war against Saudi Arabia after 9/11? Or Brits, after 7/7? Or…. What is wrong with us that we can’t organize to fight back?