[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Unreal. it seems nobody is safe anymore. I feel for the families of those killed…you’re never supposed to die, but if people absolutely had to go, at least it could have been in combat instead of on the homefront, to give some sort of meaning to the families left behind :(.[/quote]
It was combat. Just kind of one-sided because nobody was able to return fire.
The entire point of guerrilla warfare is to bring the battle to the enemy on his own ground: “hit the other fellow as quick as you can, as quick as you can, where it hurts him the most, when he ain’t lookin’.”
That is precisely what this operative did. We don’t know who he was, what his motives were, or who he was working for. Now that he’s dead, we aren’t likely to find out much that resembles the truth. But something tells me he accomplished his objective. Guess we’ll find out in the coming days what the ramifications of his having accomplished his objective might be.
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Uhh…“combat?” “Operative?” “Guerilla warfare?” Where are you getting this stuff?
Are you channeling the same “microwave” transmissions that he was?
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"Officials investigating Monday’s shooting painted a portrait of a troubled assailant who said he was hearing voices and believed as recently as last month that adversaries were using a “microwave machine” to prevent him from getting sleep.
Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old former Navy reservist killed by officers responding to the attack, had sought treatment earlier this year from the Department of Veterans Affairs for paranoia and other complaints, according to officials familiar with the investigation."
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–WSJ, today.
So we have a paranoid schizophrenic, with a medical history and a police report separately reporting his delusions–a schizophrenic who nevertheless had a security clearance. (And it is paranoid to say all this was “set-up” and a convenient cover-up.) Isn’t this shocking enough? Why make him into some “Operative” in the “People’s Guerilla War?”
Now, shame!–for recklessly romanticizing and politicizing this man and the sorry event. Why choose to exercise this “operative” fantasy when the facts of the story are despicable enough? Why is our sorry excuse for a government so adept at infringing on public rights and so poor at ensuring its own security–even to the point to allowing a schiz to pass, armed, into “secured” navy yard?
On the other hand, at least you had more facts at your disposal than VTBalla, who chose to flap his gums without a single fact at his disposal.
/chide