Comments on: Deadly Hesitation

By: MizDi / HMIL

MizDi / HMIL — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:14:00 +0000

something in my gut tells me that some of them may have been sympathizers. But maybe I’m just paranoid.

By: Anthony (Los Angeles)

Anthony (Los Angeles) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:43:39 +0000

With my initial disgust past, Gaius, I lean more toward training. I remember reading a Marine DI’s comments that one purpose of training was to get recruits to act on instinct, so they wouldn’t have time to think, since stopping to think could lead to that “deadly hesitation” you talked about.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:54:55 +0000

It may have been bad training or the culture itself, Anthony. If they were trained only to shoot on orders and nobody was there to tell them to shoot, this would be the result. It may also be part of a cultural thing not to take life. If the former, they can be retrained. If the latter, it will take some serious effort to fix the problem. Pacifism only works if everyone else is equally passive. Obvoiusly, these killers were not worried about taking lives or worried about the cultural high ground, so to speak.

By: Anthony (Los Angeles)

Anthony (Los Angeles) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:35:13 +0000

Just sickening. Those cowards should be cashiered in disgrace.

By: Public Secrets

Public Secrets — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:33:51 +0000

More on Mumbai…

Just a couple of interesting links to share tonight, both related to the jihadist assault on Mumbai. At EagleSpeak, Eagle1 provides excerpts from Indian newspapers detailing how the Muslim terrorists reached Mumbai by sea, and the sad fate of the……

By: John in Dublin California

John in Dublin California — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:30:47 +0000

While I have the deepest sympathy for the Indian people and all those who lost loved ones in Mumbai, I was constantly amazed at how inept the Indian forces seemed to be. Perhaps it was the coverage, perhaps the perspective, but they looked to me like Keystone Kops.

I’ve believed for a long time that India, not China, would become the dominent Asian economic power. Now I have to revisit that idea. The apparent, and I hope I’m viewing this incorrectly, incompetence of the Indian government startled me.

By: Foxfier

Foxfier — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:28:54 +0000

*gut drops*

Oh dear Lord….