Osama Bin Laden finally dead.

[CPS]

Who cares? They will be killed anyway. They cannot defeat us at this point now.

We have so much of work to do to take out terrorists groups across the world right now. The mission is far from over.

"He who fights monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

 

[dchoc]

This, exactly. It's much too soon to rejoice like this is some kind of victory over terrorism.

Well, isn't Bin Laden's death a win? It's compared to winning a battle, but the war is still on. You can't tell people not to celebrate when a lot of folks have been waiting for this day to happen - 10 years... It's understandable to see them do that. Though, we should not be complacent as this is just a start.

See this comment:

Who cares? They will be killed anyway. They cannot defeat us at this point now.

Now that is asinine.

 

[Senshi]

lmao!

 

[Kaiju]

Heh. Baaaaa , baaaaa (that's the sound sheep make). Carry on people. Stay in line, right over the cliff. ...And don't forget to smile doing it :thumbs:

 

[Sentinel King]

This type of thinking is what gets people in trouble.... :laugh:

I don't care. All I can say to them: BRING IT ON! I'm not afraid of them anymore! Without their leader, it's going to be very easy to defeat them now.

A very fitting to close a horrible chapter in America's History:

Soo beautiful! He got my vote next fall. He's going to be our president again, mate.

Found this on RB:



Also...

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

I LOVE IT!

 

[CPS]

I don't care. All I can say to them: BRING IT ON! I'm not afraid of them anymore! Without their leader, it's going to be very easy to defeat them now.

A very fitting to close a horrible chapter in America's History:

Soo beautiful! He got my vote next fall. He's going to be our president again, mate.

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

I LOVE IT!

I really really want to reply to this, but there's way too much to say.

 

[KouAidou]

It's not out of the question that Bin Laden might not really be a goner yet, but if that were the reality of the situation then it would be much more likely at this point that US forces have actually apprehended him and are attempting to extract information about Al Qaeda's operations and prominent figures from him via jumpercable before they send him up to that big Abu Ghraib in the sky. Of course, that would also require falsifying official documents and relaying purposefully misleading information to the public, so I'm going to wager that that's exactly what has happened.

Okay, yeah, that's another one I can believe. I'd say that more or less fits under "the facts of how, when, and where have been kludged," though, since the end is more or less the same.

If there's been any major kludging of facts in the case (and it's totally reasonable to be cynical about that), there's plenty to be argued about moral ramifications, policy, integrity, etc etc, and that sort of thing will hopefully come out to be discussed in the months to come.

I can also possibly buy "the government really thought they got him, but it turns out they got hoodwinked, well ****." That's possible and would suck a lot, but would also be an entirely different problem from a government conspiracy.

But the theory that Osama is still out there Osama-ing, the government did nothing, and has willfully and arbitrarily decided to declare him dead as an election tactic (in what is not even an election year)? No, I'm sorry. That theory makes no sense under any sort of logic: politician, human, or otherwise.

 

[Senshi]

I don't care. All I can say to them: BRING IT ON! I'm not afraid of them anymore! Without their leader, it's going to be very easy to defeat them now.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

But the theory that Osama is still out there Osama-ing, the government did nothing, and has willfully and arbitrarily decided to declare him dead as an election tactic (in what is not even an election year)? No, I'm sorry. That theory makes no sense under any sort of logic: politician, human, or otherwise.

There are obviously people out there who will make this sort of theory and run with it simply because they're conspiracy nuts. I think the only real head-scratch worthy evidence is the fact that the body's been disposed of, but even then, apparently there was a good reason for that?

Just to clear up my previous post you replied to, I wasn't even thinking about politics or any sort of conspiracies when I wrote it up. I was just making a comment based on something I read on NPR earlier that said Bin Laden had basically become a figurehead and because the level of security he places around himself doesn't make it constructive for him to hand out orders at large. So that basically had me thinking that, if he were alive, any video proving that might take some time to get out.

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Now I'm rather interested in knowing if the team that took him out will be allowed to be interviewed on the subject and if they know who actually did it or if it was too chaotic (which seems like the case) for anyone to know.

 

[Bigdog]

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