[News] Two suicide bombers kill at least 36 on Moscow subway

[Mish]

I wonder if Russia will ever become a peaceful democracy

"Our land is big, but there is no order" Tolstoy - still true today

[dewilliams2]

I don't understand suicide missions at all and I certainly don't understand targeting civilians....I mean you have a problem with the government and you want to go to arms then that is your deal...good luck...now attack government military and financial targets....money wins wars more than guns.

But what has been gained when 36 innocent people die?...you just get more people to support the government....it doesn't resemble any type of long term strategy that makes any sense.

[Mish]

I don't understand suicide missions at all and I certainly don't understand targeting civilians.....

I believe the ideology behind them is to show an inherent hypocrisy in our perception.

A missile fired by the army hits a home in Iraq (or Afghanistan, or Gaza, or Chechnya) killing 36 civilians and they are "Collateral Damage"

A bomb goes off in a western capital city killing 36 civilians and it's a condemned terrorist attack


I'm not justifying any of them by the way, just saying

[AdminOnline]

We need to start strip searching women in the subways.

No longer needed soon...

They can now even implant the stuff in their breast...

[Sonrisa]

i won't mind implants

[AdminOnline]

i won't mind implants

-_-" lol!

[Doc Durian]

I believe the ideology behind them is to show an inherent hypocrisy in our perception.

A missile fired by the army hits a home in Iraq (or Afghanistan, or Gaza, or Chechnya) killing 36 civilians and they are "Collateral Damage"

A bomb goes off in a western capital city killing 36 civilians and it's a condemned terrorist attack


I'm not justifying any of them by the way, just saying

They're used to enlarge conflict between factions for whatever ultimate goal has been decided and by whomever (It's almost impossible to verify a mastermind behind these sorts of events even when responsibility is readily assumed by one party or another. It's the beauty of the tactic and why it's so popular)

The only way for a population to thwart it rests in ignoring it and tuning the media out as well as placing the situation in context.

For instance, 36 people in a bus could easily and often occasionally do careen off a mountain road in South America and die in a deep ravine. Hundreds of people can be squished in the blink of an eye attending a large religious or sporting event gathering... acts of nature can burn, drown, or crush hundreds of thousands in a very short time.

They quickly become inconsequential.

Like I mentioned earlier... whether a rebel group or individual is responsible for an act, or war financiers, or even one's own government doesn't matter when you give them no reaction to work with. Wait for them to become frustrated and turn up the heat as they'll expose the true origin and expanse of their hand, however small/ineffectual....or if strong.... when the number of participants in the loop becomes so unmanageable that they can't keep the whistleblowers down.

[Lipp]

Given that Russia's not part of the Afghanistan/Iraq war it seems far more likely to have been another one by Chechens, guess we'll just have to wait and see if they claim responsibility. It's somewhat a relief that they're not in a tussle with middle-eastern groups, Russia worries me in terms of racist movements and that'd be just the thing to get it going.