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Originally Posted by Bassnut
He deserved it, he attacked the US, but so long as the US continuoues bombing the crap out of those that dont agree with the American dream, there will be plenty more to replace him.
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Too true.
Successive US governments have a long history of supporting unpleasant regimes that cater to "American Interests". Its manifest hypocrisy in back-stopping governments that trample the human rights it so publically reveres, (El Salvador, Israel, Indonesia, etc. etc.) and their refusal to even
acknowledge their mistakes, has led to hundreds of thousands of potential "terrorists" who see no other way to emancipation.
As someone who had to put up the IRA for 22 years, I have no sympathy for those who perform these acts, but equally I can empathise with the circumstances that lead them down that path.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not sorry bin Laden is dead. I just don't think that celebrating the fact is either politically productive or seemly.