typical repug : don't wait for facts , just make some ridiculous pronouncements to make political points with his fellow ignoramuses and get in the news .

He's Lindsey Graham, he knows everything! Just ask him.

He has what ragged bits remain firmly in his sites.

so now he has latched on to this.

Lindsay's gotta keep the Obama hate strong or he won't remain in office for long. He's been there too long already, though, IMO.

is an American citizen. The government can get more out of the suspect when his father gets here to America. And the family can find out what REALLY happened. What really happened is what Lindsay Graham is trying to prevent from becoming known in America. And he wants Obama to over react. He wants Americans to grow hatred.

that pretty much sums him up.......

I believe there was a theory about that idea and the answer was: HELL NO!

How about we not play this game as the WOPR suggested?

was I ended up laughing at this guy, who is a U.S. Senator and lawyer. Who is trying to condition whom? I guess they need to connect the dots, in order to prove they were sent here to kill people. They still have not found that link yet. I'm glad they took him alive and he will be questioned in a civilian open court. That restricts people like Lindsey from spinning his web.

sniffing asses to try to whip up hysteria and votes. What do I win?

really find this Graham trash and his ilk disgusting and racially hateful and motivated. They are racist americkkkan pigs and all I can do when I think about them or hear of anything they have to say is....

If it were a jihad mission the perps

would have committed suicide by staying with the bombs

and/or

they would have had an escape plan and the means to
execute said plan

and/or

they might have disguised themselves all along.

It was kind of a shallow, one-off plan.

Those kids had "chump" written all over them from the start.

They had no operational security aside from working in secret with each other, did not effectively protect their identities, used bombs of improper and comparatively ineffective design and placement, continued publicly communicating after the ordeal, and then took off on a six-star Grand Theft Auto chase which, for all its bluster, resulted in the eventual death or capture of the perps.

They probably lasted longer at large than they would have as professionals simply because anti-terror agencies could not predict what they were going to do next--probably because the perpetrators themselves did not know what they were going to do next.

I like Juan Cole's observation that these kids were raised as secular former Soviet muslims. Their father appears not to be devout at all, but he was a hard-ass who rode his children relentlessly, according to reports. The whole thing looks like a "fuck you, Dad" scenario to me.

Those two brothers fell under the spell of some sort of radical religious leader or text, and apparently returned to Islam on their own, but they quite obviously had no training or oversight in the execution of their plan. It seems likely to me that the two of them cooked this stupid idea up entirely on their own, with minimal outside encouragement. They certainly executed it on their own, because if someone who knew what they were doing had any hand in this, it would have been far more bloody and tragic.

(oh, wait......)

Sorry, the drek he is pulling out is worse. No insult to shit intended.

The reason we wanted him alive is so he can stand trial for his crimes. That is the American way.
Something that Graham should know as a Senator.
What a fuckstick.

You have lost your grip on reality.

Maybe he should just STFU, stop grandstanding as an arm chair general, and let the FBI do their job.

He's not calling it a jihad, which is as loaded a word as terrorist. The uncle says the older boy was "radicalized" by someone during his trip abroad.

bomb abortion clinics, kill abortion providers, get involved with militia activities etc.

nt

and never will be

still on their plates.....lack of gun controls and the resulting deaths, immigration reform, jobs, health care, immigration reform, voting rights, women's rights, etc., etc., etc.

The elected representatives jobs are protected as long as they have uniformed, ignorant, bigots electing them. The Grahams, McCain, McConnel etc., etc., etc., and use the tragedies and heartbreak of others to ignore the long time problems never solved. Much as a magician who uses slight of hand for his/her bag of tricks. Look, Look at the bright shiny object over here. They prosper and our Democracy disintegrates.

They do not study the laws they enact or fail to enact, nor do they write them. Even when they filibuster they do not not what they are truly filibustering. When they use corporations to write the laws which only protect themselves and use Congressional Staff to put it all together and coach our elected Representatives on what to say, we all get a "DO NOTHING CONGRESS," and "Taxation without representation."

Supposed to be up against a tough and uphill battle next year in his primary?

I think that brings out the xenophobia and The Stupid out; not that he wasn't before but he vocalized it.

...hate this asshole.

. . . either Graham actually believes the shit he says (in which case he is a moron), or he is shamelessly attempting to use the tragedy of the marathon bombing as a platform for political grandstanding (in which case he is an asshole). Take your pick. (Personally, I go with number 2.)

piss our pants and throw a hissy fit.

No Republican alive seems to remember Teddy Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

And he isn't going to be doing any talking, unless someone can get ahold of a working Ouija board.

But you never know, maybe the captured one does know something of value. I'm sure regular techniques will work on him though. I seriously doubt he's a hardcore type like the dude we waterboarded 168 times or whatever. A sandwich will probably go a long way.