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Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight
reporter writes with news that a Nigerian man allegedly attempted to set off a small explosive device — possibly a firecracker — on a Delta Airbus 330 airliner bound for Detroit yesterday. "There was a pop and then smoke wafted through the cabin. A passenger then climbed over several seats, lunged across the aisle and managed to subdue the suspect, the eyewitnesses said. The Nigerian man was placed in a headlock before being dragged up to the first class cabin. Passenger Zeina Seagal told CNN that after the suspect was collared and parts of his burning pants were removed, flight attendants quickly grabbed fire extinguishers and doused the fire at his seat." The man has claimed links to al-Qaeda, though the investigation hasn't confirmed that yet. (They're not taking anything for granted given that his pants were literally on fire.)
How is this news appropriate for Slashdot? This has nothing to do with technology or news for nerds. There are plenty of regular news outlets for news like this.
Cory Doctorow talking about cloud computing makes as much sense as George W Bush talking about electrical engineering.
LOL! Now how did I know some Slashdotter would mod me Troll for daring to criticize the US?
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
As for the "no modern country in the world with reasonable resources has lost to a land invasion since 1945" is sort of an oxymoron. I mean that with the utmost respect too.
You see, after 1945, NATO was created to guarantee that most modern countries would never be left defending on their own. When Russia invaded Georgia, the US Non-violently interjected as Georgia was a newly created NATO country.
Anyways, after WWII, the US took on a role of increasing their military size in an attempt to convey a message of strength to the broken down European nations which needed to focus a lot on rebuilding. We haven't really removed ourselves from that mindset but we do share military technology with our European counter parts and it's pretty much a mutual agreement. As we all know, WWII started because of the ineffectiveness of the league of nations and all countries, including the US, being unwilling to enforce it's decree and stop Germany from violating the treaty of Versailles. We all sat back and refuse our earlier obligations to defend European countries from attack too. The new mentality is based more on not letting that happen again, the US took it more seriously then most of Europe, but that was the plan- to help Europe rebuild.