Americans are an interesting lot

[whatchamacallit]

If the perp/perps are domestic, we're fine with them being prosecuted and punished under our justice system. If foreign, we won't be satisfied until we grease the country of origin. Funny, I don't remember anyone supporting an air strike on Tim McVeigh's hometown of Pendleton NY.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Funny, I don't remember anyone supporting an air strike on ...

Osama bin Ladens home country of Saudi Arabia.

[timber84]

2. bravo

[whatchamacallit]

3. True. Another example of our duplicity.

[slackmaster]

4. If a foreign government is complicit in an attack on US soil, then a US response against that...

...government is justified.

If it's just people who happen to be foreigners, then no attack on another country is justified.

[whatchamacallit]

6. Hm... What foreign government have we been at war with for a decade?

The country's name seems to have slipped my mind...

[slackmaster]

7. Please don't read too much into my previous reply. Note judicious use of the word "if."

[whatchamacallit]

8. Dig

[reformist2]

5. If foreign, Americans will support an attack on whoever our leaders tell us to attack.

At least that's what happened in 2003. Let's hope we "won't get fooled again," in the immortal words of Dubya.

[Shankapotomus]

9. I noticed that too

If it turns out it is a Right Wing group that bombed Boston this is our chance to call out Right Wingers on their hypocrisy and demand a war on domestic terror, profiling of anti-government Right Wingers and general discrimination based on a person's stance on government, taxes, abortion, etc.