Who is Alive because the French President Attended the Soccer Game

It is apparent from CNN coverage of the November 13, 2015, events in Paris that

1. there was no security checking at the concert
2. there was at the stadium.

Commentators observed that the terrorists "had done their homework", e.g., had gone through dry runs to check out the security practices.

Given this, the perpetrators had checked out the stadium and found it to be a "soft" target.

Someone challenged a bomber.  That person or persons saved more than one (the President's) life.

That person was almost certainly a casualty.

 

Shouldn't it be CINC Obama rather than the FBI

The Huffingpost is reporting that the FBI is accusing North Korea of the Sony attack.

Shouldn't it be CINC Obama?

 

Several years ago I learned that a way to combat terrorism was to punish a worthy to be punished party for one of these international incidents.

 

If you punished the wrong party, there were two parties that knew you were wrong:

 

1) the one you punished (you should pick a worthy one)

2) the guilty party.

 

If the guilty party speaks up (convincingly), you punish them.

 

Nearly all people can believe that the guilty party has been punished after step 1.  In the past, we have had a tremendous advantage in terms of identification and verification sources.

 

I can now see how this can be applied to police work.

 

1)  Round up the usual suspect

2)  Punish someone worthy of punishment

 

Johnny Cash has a song about man being executed for a murder that he didn't do.  His mother knew that he was innocent of the murder because he was robbing a train that day.  I think the character had killed a number of people.

 

The crime and punishment were justified.  They were associated with the wrong victim. 

 

An Act of Terrorism

Leon Panetta seems to be the point person now.  The Algerian BP Hostage incident IS an act of terrorism.  The perpetrator was booted out of Al Quade (no honor among thieves) but this was an act of terrorism.

Only a few months ago, Joe Biden gave us the Bumper Sticker slogan: “General Motors is Alive and Osama Bin Laden is Dead”.

What has that intellectual guru Dick Cheney got to say about all this?  Create it and they will abuse it.