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If the perp/perps are domestic, we're fine with them being prosecuted and punished under our justice system. If foreign, we won't be satisfied until we grease the country of origin. Funny, I don't remember anyone supporting an air strike on Tim McVeigh's hometown of Pendleton NY.
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)Osama bin Ladens home country of Saudi Arabia.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)slackmaster
(60,567 posts)...government is justified.
If it's just people who happen to be foreigners, then no attack on another country is justified.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)The country's name seems to have slipped my mind...
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)At least that's what happened in 2003. Let's hope we "won't get fooled again," in the immortal words of Dubya.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)If it turns out it is a Right Wing group that bombed Boston this is our chance to call out Right Wingers on their hypocrisy and demand a war on domestic terror, profiling of anti-government Right Wingers and general discrimination based on a person's stance on government, taxes, abortion, etc.