The Obama administration is refusing to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant and intends to try him in civilian court. The FBI is looking into possible sources of the Tsarnaev brothers' politicization, particularly in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's last trip overseas, but that won't be enough to prevent the wingers from howling about inadequate attention to their obvious involvement in an international terror network, or local terrorist cell, or something, anything, bigger than themselves.
But if the Tsarnaevs were part of a terror network or a U.S. cell, whatever they were part of was mostly incompetent, because they did many baffling things. Mother Jones has a list of eleven, including:
1. Wear a backwards hat and no sunglasses. Unlike his older brother, Dzhokhar made little effort to prevent cameras from capturing his face, making him easier to identify when the FBI released security camera photos on Thursday....Are we about to conclude that unless we drastically restrict our civil liberties, or profile and harass all Muslims, or severely curtail immigration, or all three, we're all going to die at the hands of THE ALL-POWERFUL TSARNAEV TERROR NETWORK? Because, yeah, they shed a hell of a lot of innocent blood, but either they got zero terrorist training -- my theory -- or they got terrible terrorist training, at least in the aspects of terrorism that didn't involve bomb construction.
3. Leave the car in the shop. The Wall Street Journal reported that Dzhokhar stopped by an auto-body shop in Watertown on Tuesday to pick up the Mercedes he'd brought in for repairs....
6. Run out of cash...
9. Stop for snacks. The Los Angeles Times reported that the hostage escaped after the brothers stopped at a gas station on Memorial Drive to buy snacks. Did they think he'd have trouble with the lock? ...
So shudder in fear a little if you must, but get a grip: these guys weren't all that.
Add to that list the fact that they were still in Boston. They could have been a thousand miles away. Criminal masterminds they certainly were not.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. (That's on the full list.)
ReplyDeleteIncompetence up the wazoo.
ReplyDeleteIn the rightie mind, they need an oxygen tank, a Sherpa guide, and a couple of pistols, to attack that mole-hill that's not even in their back yard.
ReplyDeleteSo left wing intellectuals, why did these two bumblers kill and maim, if not on a suicide mission?
ReplyDeleteWhy would people with bloodlust make the unimaginable decision to refrain from killing themselves? That may be the stupidest question a wingnut troll has ever asked me.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly the stupidest such question I've seen here. Is there a prize?
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