How Obama describes Jihad

No. My question was about the younger brother.

Photo-fish wrote: No. My question was about the younger brother.

I'm quite sure the younger brother had no idea what they were doing and why they were doing it

Yes, but was it more because of his brother or because of his own faith. His brother could have had more influence than we may know.

I don't think it matters much why the younger brother did what he did.... If it was love of Islam or love for his brother... He was a reasonably intelligent young man, he chose his path and he will suffer the consequences. No excuses.

archer wrote: I don't think it matters much why the younger brother did what he did.... If it was love of Islam or love for his brother... He was a reasonably intelligent young man, he chose his path and he will suffer the consequences. No excuses.

It matters a whole hell of a lot. We can't fight what we don't understand.

I Sorry... That isn't what I meant. Whatever the reasons behind his actions, it doesn't change how he should be treated or minimize the blame.

archer wrote: I don't think it matters much why the younger brother did what he did.... If it was love of Islam or love for his brother... He was a reasonably intelligent young man, he chose his path and he will suffer the consequences. No excuses.

Well... investigators are extremely interested in the "why"... as this report explains...

Reconstructing the trail of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's deleted Instagram account

The digital traces that remain show that Tsarnaev added a "like" on several photos referring to Chechnya that were posted by other Instagram users. One shows Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, a onetime government official who later masterminded terrorist attacks against Russia. Basayev was killed in 2006.

Another pro-Chechnya image that Tsarnaev "liked" carries a string of hashtags including #FreeChechenia #Jihad #Jannah #ALLAH #Jesus and #God. An academic Chechnya expert who CNN consulted said the images illustrated a familiarity with Chechen politics and iconography.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/tech/tsar ... ?hpt=hp_t1

Read the whole article. The "why" he did what he did could possibly lead to other people who helped him and his older brother plan this terror attack. I think that matter a whole lot... don't you?

archer wrote: I don't think it matters much why the younger brother did what he did.... If it was love of Islam or love for his brother... He was a reasonably intelligent young man, he chose his path and he will suffer the consequences. No excuses.

A plane crashes... we don't deal with the black box to find out "why" and how it can be prevented from happening again... yea sure... we just deal with the consequences... right!!!

I can only believe y'all are willfully misreading my posts. Of course we want to know why they did what they did, and it is important to find both the motivation behind their acts and who may have participated. But, again, my point was that the why really doesn't enter into how he should be treated..... This was in reference to should he be treated as an enemy combatant or be read his miranda rights. As a citizen I believe they did it right by reading him his rights. Also there has been speculation that the younger brother did what he did because his brother convinced him... Again, that is no excuse for his actions and shouldn't enter into how he is treated.

archer wrote: I can only believe y'all are willfully misreading my posts. Of course we want to know why they did what they did, and it is important to find both the motivation behind their acts and who may have participated. But, again, my point was that the why really doesn't enter into how he should be treated..... This was in reference to should he be treated as an enemy combatant or be read his miranda rights. As a citizen I believe they did it right by reading him his rights. Also there has been speculation that the younger brother did what he did because his brother convinced him... Again, that is no excuse for his actions and shouldn't enter into how he is treated.

Why not...

FBI agents picked through a landfill near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where 19-year-old suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was a sophomore.

On “CBS This Morning: Saturday,” CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant FBI director, reports the agents were looking for a couple of laptop computers that belonged to the suspects.

“One of the things in these terrorism cases, particularly, Margaret, where the issue is how did a process of radicalization occur, a lot of that occurs online,” Miller told CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan, “particularly where they want to know was anyone else involved, was there a mastermind, was he communicating with someone overseas about it.”

Miller reports that investigators believe those answers are likely to be found in the computers.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/27/f ... expertise/

If there is evidence that their involvement included other Islamic terrorists... then the federal government certainly has a right to treat them differently. You seem to miss that point.... over and over. You're just dying to see this joker (pun intended) shuffled off to jail before there is anymore talk of radical Islamic fundamentalism. Your narrative is trying to overtake the truth.