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But, not in practical experience. Actual, "street smarts"--for lack of a better term--trumps most factors.
Picture yourself working in a field. You have two colleagues to whom you can turn for advice. One has 30 years of experience, the other has 5 years. Which one's opinion would you trust more?
Whichever one isn't a moron.
I would take the word of an intelligent and thoughtful 18 year old over an idiotic 60 year old every time.
Quite some time? We knew that day on live news and in articles the next day. Where are you getting such misinformation?
Again completely false. We knew what he shouted and what people had said about his attitude, his dress and his opinions. We also knew he tried extremely hard to get out of service overseas.
If you're going to get all angry, try rereading my post and understanding what I was saying. I was not saying that we did not find out that information relatively quickly. What I was saying is that we did not find that information out for several hours - until long after people like apdst were calling this guy a terrorist.
If you go back and actually read the thread, you'll see that people like him were blaming this on Islamic terrorism when the only thing we knew was the guy's name.
So what? The soldier's actions alone showed his intentions.
And the guy who shot up his workplace 2 days after the Fort Hood incident? You could tell that that wasn't terrorism just based on his name?
So are shootings where Allahu Akbar is shouted.
But please continue digging a hole for yourself. List all the non terrorist shootings where Allahu Akbar was shouted and it wasn't Islamic Terrorism. :roll:
Try paying attention to what we're talking about. Again, the issue is not whether the guy said allah akbar. It's that people were calling this islamic terrorism hours before we knew that he said that.
BTW, just to blow away your excuses about how slow we got information on this, here is an article posted the next day with the Islamic terrorist's name.
Jesus christ dude - I posted an article with the guy's name about 3 hours after it happened. You really don't seem to get the point.