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Osama Bin Laden Killed
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about goddamn time
still, i imagine Osama Bin Laden would view this as his victory (if he were still alive, giggity). He ran rings around the US for 10 years, and was ultimately gunned down in the Middle-East by an American. You wouldn't need to be Joseph Goebbels to take that and turn it into some very motivating propaganda for his followers. I just wonder if it would have been more prudent to wait until he died of natural causes (I mean, he was 54 and apparently not in the best of health) rather than transforming him into a very potent martyr.
i know close to nothing about islam but i'm familar with the arabic term 'shahid' used to denote somebody who dies in the defense of their country/beliefs and, as a result, ascends to divinity and becomes almost omnipresent. perhaps there's some finer details that would make it inapplicable to bin laden but I could certainly imagine that term being given to him by his followers.
sure, you could say 'we couldn't leave him any longer - he'd just kill more people!' but do you really see LESS terrorist attacks as a result of this? i think it's great he has been 'brought to justice' and it would have been a shame if he went unpunished...iunno. it just seems as this whole thing is going to do a lot more harm than good.
still, i imagine Osama Bin Laden would view this as his victory (if he were still alive, giggity). He ran rings around the US for 10 years, and was ultimately gunned down in the Middle-East by an American. You wouldn't need to be Joseph Goebbels to take that and turn it into some very motivating propaganda for his followers. I just wonder if it would have been more prudent to wait until he died of natural causes (I mean, he was 54 and apparently not in the best of health) rather than transforming him into a very potent martyr.
i know close to nothing about islam but i'm familar with the arabic term 'shahid' used to denote somebody who dies in the defense of their country/beliefs and, as a result, ascends to divinity and becomes almost omnipresent. perhaps there's some finer details that would make it inapplicable to bin laden but I could certainly imagine that term being given to him by his followers.
sure, you could say 'we couldn't leave him any longer - he'd just kill more people!' but do you really see LESS terrorist attacks as a result of this? i think it's great he has been 'brought to justice' and it would have been a shame if he went unpunished...iunno. it just seems as this whole thing is going to do a lot more harm than good.
I feel surprisingly patriotic all of the sudden. That hasn't happened in a long time.
Anyways, this event will cement Obama's reelection. I'm calling it.
Anyways, this event will cement Obama's reelection. I'm calling it.
...and in other news, the best hide and seek player in the world was killed yesterday...
Dammit; when my grandkids are sitting on my knee in front of the fireplace 50 years later and they ask me where I was when the US got Osama, I'm going to have to say "I was shoveling shit in Louisiana".
Mad props to anyone who got this Patton reference
Mad props to anyone who got this Patton reference
Fishy
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being happy about osama's death isn't about having american pride, it's just americans expressing their vindictiveness about it all. yeah, osama bin laden was a major part in launching 9/11 and all other terrorist acts, but his death hasn't really changed anything. you keep making analogies like losing something and getting it back even though it's broken and shitty now, but like az said, we haven't gotten anything back. osama's death will (and should) definitely have a bigger impact on the muslim community, and all the other crazy terrorists that live and die by his image.
personally his death doesn't really affect me - all his minions will continue bombing and doing whatever the hell else they're hard-wired to do at this point, and everyone should still be worrying about them, despite the fact that their figurehead is gone
Al Qaeda already swore revenge ...
Well they obviously weren't going to remain quiet.
Chill Murray
get well soon jacoby..
Too much patriotism
About damn time.
debbie downers itt: az
the summary of which is basically "okay so it's not justice, but it is revenge"
don't get me wrong, cool, he's dead, but don't parade it around as a victory symbolic of justice when all it has accomplished is make you feel good
yes, this instance of revenge will most certainly end violence forever!!!
this is the most overrated news ever. it doesn't affect anything at all.
this is the most overrated news ever. it doesn't affect anything at all.
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