I can't say I am sorry to see his demise but fear the repurcussions which will undoubtably follow. Removing one bad apple doesn't kill the tree. Just another apple on the tree to rot and remove.
God help us all.
B.L. was a nasty person who knew how to reach into the worst of a person and create a lethal weapon. That he was killed is neither good not bad it simply is what was going to happen to him when he entered upon the path he walked.
The good or the bad will be what follows. Do the situations that created him remain the same. Will the next leader incite more horrors or incite peace? Will the camps that fester the cannon fodder continue to exist?
If you cut the head off a snake, it thrashes about for a while but it does die.
I hope this is indeed a snake and not a chicken - cut the head off the chicken and it could, if fed, live indefinitely but be incredibly random in its actions.
Osama was a champagne socialist, silver spoon in his mouth, hence being found in a mansion and not a cave.
The fact he was living the high life and sending his serfs off to die may in fact be a trigger for dissatisfaction from the proles in his keep.
The fact he was basically imprisoned anyway is quite a good thought. Especially as he wouldn't watch TV or internet. More fool him.
The man was trash. Good riddance. He won't be missed by many. I have no problem with people who have lost loved ones dancing in the streets. Good on them. At least some closure for many. You guys forget that he and his followers have no regard for life or people and will use any mean to push their agenda.
Don't get personal or don't post. Everybody's entitled to his own opinions.
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Those are the same arguments, directed at another group that he and others like him use.
The only way to stop the cycle is to find a way to answer intolerance with tolerance, hate with love violence with peace.
brian
Well go and preach to all the people who lost relatives in the twin towers while he was gloating on youtube about it? And you wonder why people are dancing in the streets?
Marc, I didn't say you were not entitled to your opinion. I simply said that I disagreed with it and pointed out a possible consequence.
And Mark as you say we all haver a right to our own opinion.
But perhaps we all need to consider the words of a world renowned peace maker 'an eye for an eye eventually leads to a world of the blind'... or words to that effect.
Brian
But perhaps we all need to consider the words of a world renowned peace maker 'an eye for an eye eventually leads to a world of the blind'... or words to that effect.
No necessarily. You weed out the scum and the world is a better place. One at a time and that was one step in the right direction.
Mark we are in agreement... absolutely. This was a man who needed to be stopped. And others who would incite death and destruction also need to be stopped.
We only disagree on the means and the attitude. And while I do not agree with using violence to stop violence the Seals certainly did it right.
So another thorn in the side of the US has been removed. I can't see it changing the the situation much
The last thorn they removed in Iraq doesn't seem to have solved any problems.
As far as I know the "bad guys" do not have real munitions factories. They buy their weaponry. I wonder who sells it to them.
The day he & his followers decided on killing innocent people to get (mainly) under the skin of the US & get our attention, was the day it ceased to be 'An American thing' - The thorn has been removed from the world as a whole, in my mind. The alternative was let him live out his days in control of al-Qaeda. Naturally it was arranged long ago for someone else to take his place in the event of his death.
No necessarily. You weed out the scum and the world is a better place. One at a time and that was one step in the right direction.
To continue the gardening analogy; weeding out scum may make the garden look better for a while but unless you get to the cause of the scum it will soon be back. The scum is fed by the large amount of 'fertilizer' spread about in the world. Unless we recognise and work to correct the root problems we will just get new scum springing up all over the place.
IMHO more harm has been done to Al Queda in the past few months by the brave people of Tunisia, Egypt, Lybia, Yemen, Syria etc than this strike could ever hope to achieve. They aren't fighting and dying for bin Laden's vision of the world. They are announcing the arrival of the Arab workers as a force on the world stage. I don't know what will happen, except that there will be more turmoil, but what I see going on now is great, terrible, scary and inspiring all at the same time.
Naturally it was arranged long ago for someone else to take his place in the event of his death.
Hopefully the CIA are monitoring communications even more fervently than before, and have a few more strike teams ready to take out the next guy who puts up his hand to replace Osama.
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that"
— Martin Luther King Jr.
