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No, there is just a contingent of Brits who are very anti-United States. It's getting old to be honest.

We aren't anti-United States at all.

Just that some of the US responses are too self-pitying and self-righteous.
Not that I really expected anything different from a predominantly US site.

Please do continue to reduce us (US citizens) to the lowest common denominator.

No different to LL's comment about some of us Brits. [:D]

Touché


We really aren't anti-American.
But sometimes the self-righteous rhetoric does tend to shine through.

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LL

The man mentioned in the post does not sound like the 9/11 bombers at all.
The poster stated he was an Israeli.
People who have spent any amount of time in Isreal tend to be much more aware of the potential for terrorism.

It has been a long time since we have had regular bomb drills in this country.
(Thankfully, there hasn't been need for them.)

I do think your quick assumption came across not as racist or nationalist but ignorant: the kind of ignorance many people develop when not exposed to cultures outside of their own.

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Could you please let their blood dry on the pavement before you bring politics in to this?

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I have yet to see a Brit on here who isn't self-righteous and never misses an opportunity to diss the US.

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I'm just playing Devils advocate here.

Much as I agree with your sentiments, when your countrymen go poking their nose into other countries business, kill, maim and blow up their people, send drones out to kill possibly one man and end up killing dozens of innocent women and children.... What else did you really expect??

Did you shed so many tears and felt so repulsed when the Afghans and Pakistanis were murdered and maimed many times by US troops and drones?
I bet you didn't.
You feel such remorse, horror and anger because it's fellow Americans on home soil.

I'm not saying it's wrong.... But just put the boot on the other foot for a second.
They are just retaliating for things that were done to them by the US.
And I don't think it takes much thinking about who the purpetrators were.

I see this all too often from a major proportion of Americans on here and other sites.
It seems it's ok to push your own politics and tread on other people around the world, then gasp in OMG shock horror that sometimes you get blasted back by those you trod on.
Did you really expect them to lay down and just take it?

I am sometimes bewildered at the US state of mind and attitudes.

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And, in that spirit:

As I understand it, the second image depicts a man comforting one of the injured.

These things can bring people together, as well as drive them apart.

Let's hope there's more of the former than the latter.

IWYW,
— Aswad.


It will do both but the outcome will undoubtably be a more warlike footing internationally for the US, if it is indeed a terrorist act

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And, in that spirit:

As I understand it, the second image depicts a man comforting one of the injured.

These things can bring people together, as well as drive them apart.

Let's hope there's more of the former than the latter.

IWYW,
— Aswad.

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And as it happens, I do think just like this.
If the UK (as it has) done just as much damage as the US then I don't flinch when some of ours are killed in mindless bombings over here.
We treat them like worthless shit when we kill their people so I don't expect anything different in retaliation.
The methods may be different but the result is the same.

To feel emotionless is sad, really sad..

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Pot meet kettle. This US blasting by the Brits is hysterical really. I have yet to see a Brit on here who isn't self-righteous and never misses an opportunity to diss the US.

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And, in that spirit:

As I understand it, the second image depicts a man comforting one of the injured.

These things can bring people together, as well as drive them apart.

Let's hope there's more of the former than the latter.

IWYW,
— Aswad.

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LL

The man mentioned in the post does not sound like the 9/11 bombers at all.
The poster stated he was an Israeli.
People who have spent any amount of time in Isreal tend to be much more aware of the potential for terrorism.

It has been a long time since we have had regular bomb drills in this country.
(Thankfully, there hasn't been need for them.)

I do think your quick assumption came across not as racist or nationalist but ignorant: the kind of ignorance many people develop when not exposed to cultures outside of their own.

I wasn't saying that I suspected that the man he was talking about was a terrorist, simply that his comments reminded me of the 9/11 people.

I've been exposed to quite a few cultures outside my own. I've traveled through a good part of Europe, including countries that were formerly under Russian rule, so yes, I do understand other cultures.

The 9/11 pilots were not in this country illegally either.

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Saudi National Apprehended

Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned. Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital. It was not immediately clear why the man was hospitalized and whether he was injured in the attack or in his apprehension... In addition, Boston police have has surveillance video of someone bringing multiple backpacks to blast site, according to CBS News.

K.

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Saudi National Apprehended

Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned. Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital. It was not immediately clear why the man was hospitalized and whether he was injured in the attack or in his apprehension... In addition, Boston police have has surveillance video of someone bringing multiple backpacks to blast site, according to CBS News.

K.

I know I shouldn't even ask, but it the NYP the only source that is quoting twelve dead instead of two? I know how difficult it is to get any accuracy during an incident of this nature.