2seaoat wrote:I am really happy that they have cornered the suspect, but I am shocked by some of the photos and video I am watching. I am seeing one street three blocks long filled with police cars......there have to be a couple of hundred cars........military vehicles.......buses filled with officers.........and all this is a response to one suspect,and possible more.
We have invested a tremendous amount of resources in law enforcement over the last 30 years with 500% increases in resources, but in the end people were killed by a couple of young men......and entire city of millions are in lock down, and every terrorist is seeing a method to attack us in the future........and sadly those thousands of law enforcement really could not stop the carnage, and doubtfully will stop the next pressure cooker bomb.....and thankfully we once again had a crime solved by security video which is where in my opinion we should be investing dollars. A single 19 year old is shutting down an entire major city in the US, and all the kings men cannot put humpty dumpty back together.........it is very frustrating to see our budget choices, and a store security video and the public seem to have solved this crime......also.....why the delay in release of this video.
I bet you whine about the time the sun comes up, it doesn't suit you.
These are TERRORISTS, not someone who robbed a filling station. The bombs they set worked. How many more did they have and where? During the course of a robbery they killed a police officer doing his duty. During the chase, they were throwing pipe bombs and hand made hand grenades.
Obviously they were not acting alone.
The mission ended successfully. What if they had done what you whine about and used 1/10th of the men and the Terrorist had killed someone else or escaped? You'd have whined about that too. Going to war, and this was a war battle, or going into a fight, you show overwhelming force so the opponent sees they don't have a slim chance in heck.
The last I heard, a few hours back, he had NOT been read his Miranda Right and will soon, hopefully, be on a plane to GITMO.