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Terror in the Skies, Again? (Parts 1 & 2) by Annie Jacobsen has sparked an interesting debate in the blogosphere.
As could be expected people are largely split into two camps:

The first camp, led by Michelle “The Marauder” Malkin, believes that th…

I see nothing wrong with being vigilant. There is nothing wrong with using nationality as a factor in evaluating someone’s likelihood of being dangerous. But that’s a whole lot different from assuming that they’re all terrorists. Once a person is exonerated, as these musicians were, they should be thanked for their patience and understanding and sent on their way, not written about in some inflammatory hack job of an article that spends countless words talking about a flight where nothing happened.

The problem with xenophobia with regard to this issue is that it’s both overinclusive and underinclusive. On the one hand, you’re mentally implicating billions of innocent people. On the other hand, you’re disregarding a whole host of others simply because they don’t fit your idea of what a terrorist looks like, yet they may be the ones to fear. It’s understandable to want to feel like you know the enemy, but the truth is that it’s much more complicated than that.

I know that everyone loves to throw around the xenophobe comment but I just don’t care. All the hijackers on 9-11 where young arab males (which of course also means muslims). Most of the remaining terror attacks of the past 20 years (against us) were also carried out by young arab males, with the sole exception of akmed mcveigh. Take out a few local africans for the embassy bombings and they’re all arab males. I will not put my head in the sand and pretend that there isn’t a pattern worth noting.

I don’t think I’m a xenophobe, but if I am, who cares? I’m protecting my family, myself and my way of life. If I was truly a xenophobe, I wouldn’t like all the mexican nations living and working where I am. However, they work hard, are polite and do jobs lazy Americans won’t. More power to em. As long as they don’t threaten to blow us up, live and let live.

I do have one racist complaint. If you can’t speak english, you shouldn’t be allowed to man the drivethrough at Wendy’s.

I’ve never tried to learn Arabic, but believe it or not, people actually do learn to speak it. But you’re actually right about the suspiciousness of it. French would probably be a better choice, because that’s a commonly spoken language around the world by people of many different ethnicities.

Also, do you think that people might get a wee bit suspicious of 5 or more guys or different ethnic backgrounds on an airplane all happen to be speaking arabic?

Once again, using Annie Jacobsen’s analogy to back up your own argument is a little weak, to say the least.

Maybe Sandy Burgler stuck the documents down his pants and in his socks because he didn’t have pockets?

Sweet dreams, where you can live in a world where all people, muslim and all, sit by the campfire and sing songs and toast smores.

Of course, you’ll be the first one crying about Bush when someone you know goes down in the next terrorist attack. He knew, he knew, he knew!!!!!!!

In case you are this dense, I’ll try it one more time. Annie Jacobsen said nothing about languages. I did, in response to you. I simply borrowed her analogy about training people to play music to make the same point about teaching people a new language. YOU’RE the one who said that people of different nationalities wouldn’t be able to communicate.

Also, I know they were all Syrian and they all spoke Arabic. I’m not talking about this group of people in particular, but rather a hypothetical group of terrorists of diverse nationalities, which YOU said would be impossible.

That’s it — you’ve given me a headache. I’m done here for now, although a part of me can’t wait to see what you come up with to top the SAT line.

In the article by Annie Jacobsen that started this whole mess, she closes by saying, “So the question is… Do I think these men were musicians? I’ll let you decide. But I wonder, if 19 terrorists can learn to fly airplanes into buildings, couldn’t 14 terrorists learn to play instruments?”

Then someone here said something about how the terrorists would use people of different nationalities (I assume that was the point, because I didn’t feel like looking for the post).

You responded by saying that such a plan couldn’t work, because they wouldn’t speak the same language.

I responded to that by using Annie Jacobsen’s own analogy (OK, I messed up the phrasing. I didn’t go back and look it up) to point out why you are mistaken. I found that to be very clever on my part, and I promptly patted myself on the back, as I do every time I outwit a conservative, because all liberals do is bask in our intellectual superiority. The point was that men of different nationalities could be trained to speak the same language. Whether or not all 19 hijackers were trained to fly was her mistake, not mine. Regardless, my point still stands, and yours doesn’t.

I was responding to the dumbass who said hijackers wouldn’t be of the same nationality, and despite my xenophobia, I can’t recal posting anything about this particular bunch of musicians/hijackers.

Wow, you must have had a down moment from your towering intellect and utopian world vision. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of people like me who have yet to be saved.

Keep at it sugar.