ISIS ransom

Quote: Evenbob

Krauthammer made a good point. We have 2000 years
of history that teaches us how to deal with religious
extremists. You can't reason or negotiate with them,
all you can do is wipe them out. It will come to that,
hopefully sooner than later. I hope it doesn't take a
big hit in this country to wake people up.

Quote: 1nickelmiracle

I always wondered if it's just theater. We aren't protected anywhere from anything and nothing seems to ever happen.

Quote: Evenbob

Only because of the constant diligence of what's
going on behind the scenes that we don't see.
And it's really hard to put something together
that makes a big boom now. The days of Tim
McVeith are long gone. I was watching a movie
made in 1970 and a guy who wanted to blow up
something broke into the back room of the local
hardware store and stole a bunch of dynamite.
Those days are gone too.

Quote: Evenbob

Little booms are easy, big booms that blow
up buildings are very difficult now.

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Wounds are an easy metaphor to use to talk about the recovery of Richmond Hill. Many wounds remain and they’re in various stages of healing. Some have scarred over, some are still rising to the surface. And the approaches to healing are as varied as the scores of families whose lives were turned upside down at 11:08 p.m. on Nov. 10, 2012.

For Glenn Olvey, the physical wounds that remain — the shrapnel still imbedded in his legs, arm, back and head — are a minor annoyance.

More difficult to grapple with are his jangled nerves. Like many folks who experienced the explosion, Olvey finds loud noises bothersome, particularly ambulances and sirens and such. After his home and several others were consumed in flames, he has no desire to sit around bonfires, which used to be so fun. He struggles to eat because of his nerves and has dropped 50 pounds from the guy who was “north of 275” when the explosion tossed him through the house like a rag doll.

Quote: rxwine

As far as ISIS, I think the best option (whether other nation states like us doing it or not) is bump up our production of drones x100, and blacken the skies over these loose terrorist held territories.