tom1
I'm not sure I know what wishy washy is supposed to mean. What are you suppose to do when a terrorist kills people and dies in the process? Attack his/her country of origin, attack similar religious/ethnic groups?
It seems to me the ones talking the toughest are usually the furthest from the front lines.
You have it entirely wrong. Furthest from the front lines? I live in work in Manhattan, which not so long ago was hit by the worst terrorist attack this country has ever seen. In 2010 I walked right past an SUV loaded with explosives on 45th Street and got to 8th Avenue in time to hear the sirens and chaos behind me and the cops closing down the block, and watched a bomb disposal robot approach the vehicle. That bomb would have killed dozens and to this day I still think about the fact that it might have gone off as I was walking past. In addition to that, I take the rush hour subway in Manhattan several times a week and am always aware of the fact that I'm standing heel to toe in a train that these scumbags are probably thinking about targeting with a suicide attack all the time.
In contrast, I have friends on Nantucket who are exactly of the "wishy washy" mentality I describe and have in the past criticized others for "being afraid" of terrorists. Yep, right there on Nantucket where there's about as much chance of a terrorist attack as there is of a volcano eruption.
Don't even pretend to be unaware of the fact that we're dealing with a widespread religious cult, worldwide, whose express goal is to establish a global caliphate. And that many people in these communities have openly said that
they would refuse to report extremists with terror links to the authorities. We're not condemning a race or an ethnicity or a nationality here, it's a set of ideas which a free thinking individual has the choice to follow or not. Therefore it is 100% ripe for condemnation. And the fact that so many people refuse to condemn it just proves that these terrorists have a pretty easy going outlook in front of them. The police know who most of them are, and after every attack we hear that the culprit was "known to police." They were probably known in their communities as well. But a combination of spineless PC and warped sense of loyalties means that they are able to plan and execute their carnage without a care in the world. Damn right I'm angry.