<<Do you see what a joke you people are to the world?>>
Sure, if "the world" consisted of right-wing nut-jobs, I guess "us people" WOULD be a joke to them.
In the first place, both the Detroit airport incident and this one in Times Square are suspicious because "alert bystanders" foiled plots of mass murder before anyone got hurt. In the Detroit airport incident, which seems to have fallen completely off the media screen since a passenger overheard by chance how the "terrorist" was let onto the plane with what in retrospect can only be CIA intervention, there was other evidence of government involvement in the form of video surveillance of the "terrorist" during the flight. In the Times Square incident, the unlikely sequence of events, the car bomb giving off smoke, the "alert bystander," "alert NYPD cop," etc. and in both incidents, the fact that a relatively simple operation by "trained terrorists" failed in the moment of what should have been relatively simple execution.
In view of the U.S. government's past willingness to stage fake evidence of threats, from the Gulf of Tonkin to the "troops massing on the Saudi border" hoax of the First Gulf War to the "WMD" hoax of the Second Gulf War, it seems to be to be totally crazy to discount the possibility that these "terror attacks" might also be fakes, to justify not an attack on some new Third World victim but on the Constitutional rights of American citizens.
The only ones whose credibility is at stake are those who deny the possibility and not those who propose it.
We also think it is crazy to believe that America can continue to rape, torture, murder and massacre its way across the Middle East, without expecting the people of the Middle East to plot some kind of revenge attack, however inadequate, against the Americans. To deny that is also to expose one's credibility to the risk of ridicule.
