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And the terror keeps on happening.

May 22, 2017 4:30PM PDT

Post was last edited on May 23, 2017 2:05 PM PDT

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(NT) Unfortunately , Yes....
May 23, 2017 4:19AM PDT
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Doesn't seem to be lessening, so might I ask something?
May 23, 2017 10:58AM PDT

If you were asked by your government officials to offer what measures should now be taken to defend against and/or end these type of attacks, what would you tell them?

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RE:If you were asked by your government officials
May 23, 2017 12:40PM PDT
If you were asked by your government officials to offer what measures should now be taken

Mind control?

Have a rapid response and save as many lives as possible....a thorough investigation of all associates of the bomber?

Not much can be done to "end" something....as long as people can "think/get an idea in their head",

Punishment doesn't work....for a SUCCESSFUL suicide bomber.....

Is the "cure" worse than the "disease"? They don't look very comfortable
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You're right on with part.
May 23, 2017 1:57PM PDT

Not much can be done to "end" something....as long as people can "think/get an idea in their head",
Exactly. Look how easy it is for a teenager these days to join an army, with automatic weapons and grenades. Or for a devoutly religious man to acquire a small packet of explosives. (One small packet = 19 deaths and counting.)
Who can clean up our minds, or at least eliminate perfectly those who won't have theirs cleaned up?

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Clarification:
May 24, 2017 3:55PM PDT

"Perfectly" means with perfect justice. Not just clobbering the ones you want dead or I want dead.
Justice is the hard part.

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Patterns and protectiveness maybe
May 23, 2017 2:54PM PDT

You have ants coming into your house. They enter at any time you are eating or have food on the table or counter. You notice they're all of the same type and size. It's probable that they're all coming from the same nest. You've sealed every entry point you've seen them come through but they still get in. The ants are unwelcome in your home. Your choices:

1. Capture and release them back outside
2. Capture them and imprison them in your home.
3. Kill them upon sight or injure them hoping they'll return to the nest and report what happened.
4. Do nothing because they've not done you personal harm...yet.
5. Do nothing. If they harm you, it was meant to be.
6. Find and eliminate their nest.
7. Don't eat in your own house.
8. Move to a place where ants have not been spotted.
9. Attempt to rehabilitate them
10. Attempt to divert them to a neighbor's house..., or, for you "neighbour's" house. (my US-English spellchecker is faulty)
* Additional options here.

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My leading govt official doesn't ask, nor should he,
May 23, 2017 2:00PM PDT

if he's qualified to lead. He has everything in place and is ready to move, as soon as all the rowboats and helicopters have checked in.

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OK....your reply doesn't make any sense
May 25, 2017 12:41PM PDT

Politicians/govt officials are SUPPOSED to listen to the people....unfortunately few do. No ONE person has all the answers for every problem out there, so it is a REQUIREMENT that he/she have ADVISORS to give alternative methods or additional methods of dealing with issues. No matter what you have in place, if those tools aren't effective, get better tools. Case in point....

We have a dream team trained military, second to none in the world.....however, since VietNam, the politicians have been deciding strategy instead of those leaders on the ground who actually know what's happening and can react in real time. BO took it one step further by making it a new 'rule' that even if a pilot or shooter has the enemy in his sights, he is NOT ALLOWED to act until given PERMISSION from someone back in DC via the leader on the ground.....so you have a game of 'relay'.....pilot overhead sees the convoy he needs to bomb, calls the general back at base, the general calls DC, gets permission relayed to the general, the general gives the pilot the go-ahead, and it's a half hour later and the convoy is long gone.....opportunity missed. THIS president has gone 'old school' and taken DC out of the equation for actually being able to use our military the way they have been trained. That's how it had been done long before VietNam and we won every war we were ever in, but once the hippies and bleeding heart politicians who were more interested in getting reelected than winning a war that a bunch of druggies were protesting over, we stopped winning anywhere we had conflicts.

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Just an FYI
May 25, 2017 2:23PM PDT

I believe dp is alluding to an old tale about a man in jeopardy from drowning. You can look it up. It's often written as something of a modern day parable.

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It would be nice if
May 25, 2017 4:00PM PDT

he would stop talking in riddles and just say what he means for a change........I shouldn't have to look something up to 'interpret' his meaning.

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Dafydd, I understand your shock, but
May 23, 2017 1:51PM PDT

you can stop using question marks. It does and will. Sad

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Question mark gone.
May 23, 2017 2:07PM PDT

It's a dreadful thing for Manchester.
Dafydd.

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Yes it is.
May 23, 2017 6:24PM PDT

I knew a woman from there, and she was perfectly ordinary in a nice way. The city also, I'm told, is full of decent working stiffs (called good old sods, I guess?) who do not deserve that sort of treatment.

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(NT) Does anyone, in your mind, deserve it?
May 25, 2017 12:41PM PDT
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22 and counting.
May 23, 2017 2:02PM PDT
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Troops and SAS on the streets.
May 23, 2017 4:34PM PDT
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There are such places.
May 23, 2017 6:50PM PDT

I believe parts of France are like that, since their own concert terrorism, and the Nice massacre. I don't know that it would help, given the nature of such attacks.
Example: Look at the quote from the PM embedded in your link. 'Of course it's critical, woman! There's been a bombing! We know that!' My point is not to put down poor Ms May, but to show that almost the only action to be taken will be re-action.
All you UK folk have my sympathy, by the way.

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Everybody. Please look at the Muslim response in the news.
May 24, 2017 4:17PM PDT

It was heart warming. These terror spreaders are not Muslim according to their faith. Therefore they are condemned to Hell.
Dafydd.