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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:56PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:56PM (#576583) Journal

    Key word, though, in your post, is "alliance". Not "friends", but "allies". We were allied with Communist Russia, or the Soviet. We were never "friends" of the Soviet. They never believed that to be so, nor did we. We were, clearly, just allied, for the purpose of defeating a common enemy.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:37PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 03 2017, @08:37PM (#576762) Journal
    I doubt anyone employing enemies of enemies rationales at the federal level makes that mistake either. I think rather the problem is that the US has so often wanted dirty results without getting their own hands dirty in the process (and often with the intent to save money or effort in the process). The proxies used to do so are naturally sketchy and unreliable.