Comments on: Mumbai

By: ASM826

ASM826 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:34:06 +0000

Lex,

I posted a couple of updates on my blog. Two news articles. First, the Jewish victims were not just murdered, they were tortured.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/30mumterror-doctors-shocked-at-hostagess-torture.htm

and second, the Rabbi’s wife was six months pregnant.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1091318/Jewish-mother-killed-Mumbai-attacks-pregnant–son-2-beaten-militants.html

I don’t know exactly why those things make it worse, but they do.

By: Mongo

Mongo — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:08:42 +0000

Grumpy, the pic is Huahine in June ’04, following a 4 week sailing adventure from New Zealand to Papeete. Not quite the Marine that I used to be. :^)

Your point on the SWAT folks is well taken, and perhaps my brush was too broad on that one.

Thanks for the compliment!

And Grumpy, even after they bury me…I’ll still be in the fight. Semper Fi!

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:01:12 +0000

Mongo, As I looked at the picture in your earlier link. It is strange for me, there are parts I agree and parts I disagree. Point, “Thankfully our SWAT teams are better trained than the faithful few in Mumbai,….” This is the only section I way disagree with you. I see some SWAT units unable to be able to deal with this type of an assault. The difference is one between tactical and strategic. As I continued to read the same sentence, “…. but the Shock and Awe will be heartrending for many.” Hmm, just maybe the Old Boy, does get it after all.

If that’s a picture of you in the upper right hand corner, it says a GREAT deal. In your last paragraph, you take the ultimate risk of empathy. The American Muslim is in a rough spot. He is put into a dilemma, he must make a choice between two options. Option ‘A’, sucks and Option ‘B’ sucks, as well, no other choices. In this aspect, all I trying to say is I agree with you.

Mongo, fight on! Stay in the fight!

By: Mongo

Mongo — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:57:51 +0000

Grumpy, I guess I see all of this coming to a place in the heartland near to any one of us very soon. What we see elsewhere is simply minor league practice prior to taking it to the majors.
Thankfully our SWAT teams are better equipped and trained than the faithful few in Mumbai, but the Shock and Awe will be heartrending for many.
Sadly too, at some point, America’s Muslims are going to have to decide to be ‘with us or with them’, and act accordingly. We’ve already seen it in action in Iraq with generally satisfactory results. I say sadly because I can empathize with the situation they’ll find themselves in.

By: Grumpy

Grumpy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:11:31 +0000

Mongo, feel-free, either comment is appropriate to this rotten situation. But the thing that really got me was the link to “Mubai Photographer…”. As I looked at the picture and it’s subject, something really began to stand out to me. The first being, he appeared “military-trained”. There is something else that just just doesn’t fit.

By: Mongo

Mongo — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:27:58 +0000

More on the mess in Mumbai: Mumbai photographer: I wish I'd had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back. Quite a number of pictures linked to the story, which, ironically, comes out of Belfast. Once upon a time there was a county in Georgia, where it was required by law that each household own and keep a gun in the house. Upon enactment of the law, crime in the surrounding territory dropped precipitously... seemingly overnight. Thank God that granting a CCW in WA is still in shall-issue status. Oddly enough, even The People's Republic still has the option in places. Wonder of wonders...