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Fort Hood - Terrorist Attack?

Terrorist or Not

  • Yes, A terrorist Attack

    Votes: 38 54.3%
  • no

    Votes: 32 45.7%

  • Total voters
    70
We have no clue if he left some sort of message behind at this point. We are not aware of everything going on no matter how much the media wants us to think otherwise. :roll:

You're right! THE MEDIA COULD BE IN ON IT! Hmmmmm...there's got to be a way to find out for sure!
 
We have no clue if he left some sort of message behind at this point. We are not aware of everything going on no matter how much the media wants us to think otherwise. :roll:

A simple note would be more of a suicide note for him.
 
Yeah, the Soviet Union would've kicked their asses too, if we hadn't been arming and abetting them against the Soviets.

So who's arming and abetting them now against us? Is Russia doing it out of spite? ;)
 
Yet it only took a handful of them to bring New York City to it's knees. It's the few of them that have the entire world pointing weapons in all directions. And it is the most of them that become the few. And in the end, our technological wonder land is being matched against an impoverished, uneducated peasant with an IED. When it comes to the media and world opinion, who is getting a bigger "bang" for their buck?

It doesn't seem to matter that dozens to a hundred of our enemy gets slaughtered in a single's day of fighting. What matters is that 4 American deaths have started to equal our defeat to the ignorant in even the west. We are in a war against time. Eventually, no matter what we do will equal defeat to the masses.

So would the members of Blackwater that mowed down innocent Iraqi citizens be considered Terrorists?
 
Yet it only took a handful of them to bring New York City to it's knees.

Yeah, they did it with a couple of box-cutters, didn't they?
Somehow, I'm not sure that's indicative of their prowess as military adversaries, but rather our ill-preparedness, which was borne of arrogance.
 
Yeah, they did it with a couple of box-cutters, didn't they?
Somehow, I'm not sure that's indicative of their prowess as military adversaries.

Yes it was nineteen guys armed with boxcutters.
 
Yes it was nineteen guys armed with boxcutters.

Were there that many?
Oh well. I'll bet our military- over 2 million strong, with an annual defense budget of 607 billion- could take them.
 
Alright Captain Serious Business. I'm gonna have to ask you to take a deep breath and not consider everything you read here as fact, truth, or honest opinion. There are things called sarcasm, trolls, and morons out there on the internet and well, you're gonna go crazy or look like an ass if you take everything so serious.

;)

I am going to ask you to refrain from telling me what to do buster! Where did you get from my post that I consider everything said here as truth? I did not. I suggest you not assume things or you are gonna be the one looking like an ass. :roll:
 
So would the members of Blackwater that mowed down innocent Iraqi citizens be considered Terrorists?

If you want them too.

But were they trying to coerce the Iraqi government into anything? Or terrorize the masses at large? Or making a statement for God? Were there videos of justifiactions delivered to the Iraqi people via various media outlets?

Or were they simply unprofessionals engaged in a criminal act?

Like I stated, we have to be practical and step back before we label everything under the sun as an act of terrorism. At this rate, how soon will the government of Texas be labeled as a terrorist state for executing their criminals? Do they not mean to influence (terrorize) the masses?

It can get out of hand very easily.
 
If this were to be considered a terrorist attack, then any attack made with religious or political motivation can be considered the same, regardless of the aggressors. I think this is the point people are trying to make when they bring shock and awe into this conversation.

By their very nature, any attacks are terrifying to the general public. Diluting the essence of them by calling any attack by a certain mindset or political affiliation terrorist attacks undermines the concept. This was not an attack on civilians.

I think we need to avoid the emotional urge to call this a terrorist attack, and determine if there were any outside influences or a lone shooter. If there are outside influences, well, we need to introduce them to a big smoking hole in the ground. Make it real personal like.

This wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a military attack... and military attacks demand retaliation.
 
You're right! THE MEDIA COULD BE IN ON IT! Hmmmmm...there's got to be a way to find out for sure!

Do you have trouble with reading comprehension? I was simply pointing out what any idiot should understand: we are not privy to all the details at this point and the powers that be are not gonna make everything they know public at this point. This is the way these things work. Got it? Good!

Also nowhere in my post did I suggest the media is in on it. I am simply pointing out that the media will try to appear as if they know Everything when any thinking person knows that at this point the media does not know full details. You getting me now?
 
I am going to ask you to refrain from telling me what to do buster! Where did you get from my post that I consider everything said here as truth? I did not. I suggest you not assume things or you are gonna be the one looking like an ass. :roll:

You're the one taking everything so serious. ;) And I look like an ass already so it won't do me much harm to continue the trend.
 
Do you have trouble with reading comprehension? I was simply pointing out what any idiot should understand: we are not privy to all the details at this point and the powers that be are not gonna make everything they know public at this point. This is the way these things work. Got it? Good!

Also nowhere in my post did I suggest the media is in on it. I am simply pointing out that the media will try to appear as if they know Everything when any thinking person knows that at this point the media does not know full details. You getting me now?

Right...right...we can't let em know we're on to them! Brilliant...alright...Back to normal here...nothing to see here...nothing fishy going on in the media...


just a normal night....



no dickery afoot here...no sir...




(I don't think they suspect a thing...;))
 
If you want them too.

But were they trying to coerce the Iraqi government into anything? Or terrorize the masses at large? Or making a statement for God? Were there videos of justifiactions delivered to the Iraqi people via various media outlets?

Or were they simply unprofessionals engaged in a criminal act?

Like I stated, we have to be practical and step back before we label everything under the sun as an act of terrorism. At this rate, how soon will the government of Texas be labeled as a terrorist state for executing their criminals? Do they not mean to influence (terrorize) the masses?

It can get out of hand very easily.

You don't think acts like that terrorize the masses at large?

They were not unprofessionals engaging in a criminal act. They were Defense Contractors in the field acting on the behalf of the US government and yes they took oaths i'm sure and were acting in the name of their god.

If that is the case? Can't this one shooters acts be explained away as being the same thing? After all he was just a unprofessional engaging in a criminal act right?
 
You're the one taking everything so serious. ;) And I look like an ass already so it won't do me much harm to continue the trend.

What are you talking about? This is a serious topic to me and maybe my post are coming off wrong to you or something. Not my problem. Yours. If you expect light heart banter about this topic from me? Maybe you should get a grip or take your troll ass downstairs. ;)
 
Were there that many?
Oh well. I'll bet our military- over 2 million strong, with an annual defense budget of 607 billion- could take them.

Unfortunately, "they" have no intention of fighting our military, which is why we are hunting them down all over (Post-9/11 saw our people in the Phillipines, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East). They are fightng us in the media and are more than willing to reveal themselves only after they have slaughtered Americans and committed suicide.

Cold War satelitte imagery may have been useful against mass Soviet armies on the move, but it has no place in a war where our enemy works in cells. Our HMWWVs are being parked in favor of a good old fashion donkey in some places in Afghanistan. And our precision weapons may look good on TV, but do very little to convince our enemies that they are defeated. The paradox we live today is without precedent in history.

The ultimate smack in the face was Rumsfeld's "Shock-and-Awe." Convinced that pure technology will win the war while the minimum of troops merely walked in and accepted surrender was pathetic. U.S. Marines and soldiers had to win the war the old fashioned way - street by street and in your face fighting.

The media gravitates towards the hundred dollar IED, not the billion dollar precision rocket.
 
What are you talking about? This is a serious topic to me and maybe my post are coming off wrong to you or something. Not my problem. Yours. If you expect light heart banter about this topic from me? Maybe you should get a grip or take your troll ass downstairs. ;)

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were being GENUINE in your concern. My apologies and I take back everything I said.
 
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were being GENUINE in your concern. My apologies and I take back everything I said.

Right. Take your WEAK snark and shove it:roll:
 
You don't think acts like that terrorize the masses at large?

They were not unprofessionals engaging in a criminal act. They were Defense Contractors in the field acting on the behalf of the US government and yes they took oaths i'm sure and were acting in the name of their god.

If that is the case? Can't this one shooters acts be explained away as being the same thing?

I have already stated that anything can be described as "terrorism."

The Allies during World War II terrorized the German population eventually. Hiroshima and nagasaki terrorized the Japanese into immediate surrender. Thirty days of bombings terrorized the Iraqi forces to surrended in the Gulf War. 9/11 terrorized an entire western civilization.


After all he was just a unprofessional engaging in a criminal act right?

Sure. But he was far removed from any battlefield or war zone. He was a selfish, self-gratifying weakling who lashed out and fully expected to die from it.
 
Alright, apology accepted!

LOL! O.K. You managed to make me laugh when I was all sad about this stuff. :2razz:

Have a cool night. I am off to drink a few more beers and then sleepy time.
 
LOL! O.K. You managed to make me laugh when I was all sad about this stuff. :2razz:

Have a cool night. I am off to drink a few more beers and then sleepy time.

;) It's how I roll. btw I still think Jerry inadvertently troll'd you.
 
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