Mumbai was "in many ways a pre-emptive strike against Obama's strategy for the region"

He's not the president yet, you deranged woman.

"deranged woman". Way to keep it classy there blah. You need to ban that clown, Michelle.

This is totally logical. Why the heck would Pakistan try to launch an attack like this? What could they possibly gain from it.

It doesn't matter. Obama will just "decry the violence", let the whole region disintegrate, and wait for us to get nuked.

"we can't just run in, guns blazing at the first signs of violence"

??????????????????

Umm, who exactly is proposing this? Nobody? Didn't think so.

Pakistan won't be the ones nuking us. Obama will stand aside while Iran gets the bomb and fulfills their threats by using it against Israel. Israel will have no choice but a devastating response. Pakistani militants, aghast at this offence by the Jeeeewwws against "brother muslims", will overthrow the goverment and nuke Israel more thoroughly, at which point we'll have to respond. It's probably unavoidable, but an Obama presidency will just hasten it.

What a sad, paranoid world you must live in, ZZ.

It's a great mistake to underestimate what these Islamist wackos are capable of.

You mean like when Bush ignored the warnings for 9/11 in the weeks before the attacks? Al Qaeda had attacked the WTC in 1993, and Clinton spent a lot of time and focus on both terrorism and Bin Laden for *years* with the only response from the Republicans being that it was all just a way to deflect attention from Monica Lewinsky and whatever scandals the GOP were hyperventilating about that day.

It's laughable now that the GOP cares so much about terrorism when all those years ago, they were so quick to dismiss it all as a distraction back when Clinton was president. Once Bush got into office and the Towers came down, then you idiots started to care. Before then? Ha! Not a chance.

Guess what? The Indian government had ample warning of the Mumbai attacks, even from the US. They just pulled a Bush and didn't take it seriously, and look what happened.

Law enforcement, taking threats seriously, and working with a sense of proportion instead of going off half-cocked like the Republicans have done since 9/11 is a much smarter way to go than wringing your hands and whining about those evil terrorists who are out to kill us all. It's entirely possible to protect this country without being an imbecile about it. Too bad the Republicans haven't learned that yet.

BTW, statistically, we're ALL going to die someday. It's inevitable.

That's what 9/11 was to every person on EARTH, not just Bush.

Er, no. It was a surprise to everyone else, but not to the President or his national security people:

http://www.slate.com/id/2098861/

The government knew there was a real and credible threat to this country from Al Qaeda. They might not have known when or where, but there were definite signs that an attack was coming down the pipeline. It just wasn't taken seriously by the White House.

"There were suspicions raised when these guys were taking flying lessons, but not wanting to learn how to land the planes. If we'd intervened then, arresting and/or deporting them in advance, we might have been spared the attacks".

And who exactly was supposed to connect these dots? The Federal Beaureu of Flying School Snooping? If such a thing had existed before 9/11, you and every other lefty would be screaming that your rights were violated. There simply had never been a federal agency before that had any mandate to do something like that, simply because the mode of attack was utterly original. The idea that Bush was personally asleep at the switch somehow because he didn't have the clairvoyance to read Bin Laden's mind is so childish it deserves no refutation.

And what exactlty would you arrect them for? Taking flying lessons? Trample on the Consitution much?

Trample on the Consitution much?

A Republican whining about trampling on the Constitution after the last eight years of Bush/Cheney? LOL! That's rich.

Thanks for the laugh. I needed it.

I never cited Daily Kos. Try again.

And I could give plenty of sources: The Washington Post, the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, any number of books that have been published in the last years since 9/11, the 9/11 commission itself, etc.

You idiots would just find a way to chalk it up to liberal media bias, so why bother? Live in your little dead end Republican world where nothing is ever Bush's fault, and his administration never failed at anything. Even he's not dumb enough to say that anymore, but you guys still manage. Good job.