So Long Osama, So Long!

[HRC99]

Celebrating his death in public, en masse, is extremism. It is the exact thing the Americans shake their head at when extremist muslims do it after an attack of some description. Exactly the same, in my opinion anyway.

If the shoe was on the other foot, we'd be hearing "that mad lot at it again, look at them all, jumping around celebrating someone dying - they're barking mad"

I couldn't agree more.

The cheering and celebrations were not a pretty sight and will, no doubt, be played over and over to inspire ever more recruits into the arms of these terrorists.

My initial reaction to the news was great. But the more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I am.

It has been described as justice. There is no justice in killing him, there is just vengeance.

 

[Basher]

All I can think about the whole episode is........ that must be the longest Call of Duty session ever!!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Whilst I think the guy got his cumuppence, I can't help wondering where and when the backlash will come and in what form. Sadly it is inevitable and even sadder is it will be more innocent men, women and children that fall victim

 

[Paul_Stewart]

Better that than him sitting around laughing at all the damage he has caused.

Loving all the do-good liberals trying to claim that he should have been brought to trial. We could have even given him asylum and a council house here.

Just glad they finally put Jack Bauer on the case - the 9th series of 24 is going to be awesome even if we do know now that he gets his man in the end (add your own punchline there for the other eight series).

 

[USER1999]

Apparently the US knew he was there last August. What took so long?

It doesn't really matter in the great scheme of things. He was a bit of a figure head, but there are plenty who will take his place.

The next atrocity which happens would probably have happened any way, with or without his input.

Brave of OBL to use his wife as a human shield though.

 

[19thagain]

Maybe the Americans should ponder the words of one of their own!!

"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

 

[Paul_Stewart]

OK then Martin Luther King, lets all start a love-in for Muslim extremists who blow up innocent civilians and crash planes into buildings.

 

[Yerman]

Maybe the Americans should ponder the words of one of their own!!

"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

Just another religious superstition spreader spouting rhetorical nonsense, did we love Hitler to death?

 

[Farneyman]

Just another religious superstition spreader spouting rhetorical nonsense, did we love Hitler to death?

How you can compare MLK Adolf is daft just pure daft. was much more than that and what he stood for. You are an eejit imho.

 

[thecraw]

I wonder if OBL could putt????

 

[Yerman]

Just another religious superstition spreader spouting rhetorical nonsense, did we love Hitler to death?

How you can compare MLK Adolf is daft just pure daft. was much more than that and what he stood for. You are an eejit imho.

I should be offended but you're probably right.

 

[Ethan]

Few will mourn the passing of OBL but his death is now more relevant for Obama's re-election than for global terrorism.

Not that the Afghanistan campaign had much to do with global terrorism anyway. The whole thing is going badly, especially outside Kabul, and the US hasn't a clue how to get out without losing face.

 

[freddielong]

Apparently he was only buried at sea because his name is an anagram of

"lob da man in sea"

 

[Aztecs27]

One of the "normal" americans:

“I just can’t find it in me to be glad one more person is dead, even if it is Osama bin Laden.” - Harry Waizer, WTC survivor.

I fear this may only be the beginning

 

[USER1999]

Martin Luther King didn't say that anyway.

 

[Yerman]

I prefer Einstein:
"For evil to succeed all good people have to do is nothing".

 

[Ethan]

I prefer Einstein:
"For evil to succeed all good people have to do is nothing".

Einstein is not the usually credited source of that quotation, which is a bit of a bland cliche anyway.

You could just as easily say that for evil to succeed all good people have to do is something possibly originally well intentioned but ultimately naive (or ironically, cynical) and poorly thought through.

 

[Paul_Stewart]

One of the "normal" americans:

“I just can’t find it in me to be glad one more person is dead, even if it is Osama bin Laden.” - Harry Waizer, WTC survivor.

And most of the other 20,000 people who escaped the Twin Towers are glad he's dead. Still, if one lone voice thinks it's wrong then who cares about the moral majority?

 

[HogansAlley]

One of the "normal" americans:

“I just can’t find it in me to be glad one more person is dead, even if it is Osama bin Laden.” - Harry Waizer, WTC survivor.

Hats off to Mr Waizer. Celebrating a death makes us a base as Bin Laden and his followers.

I believe German Chancellor Angel Merkel said earlier in the week that Bin Laden's death was a 'victory for forces of peace'. The 'forces of peace'? An oxymoron if ever there was one.

 

[Yerman]

I prefer Einstein:
"For evil to succeed all good people have to do is nothing".

Einstein is not the usually credited source of that quotation, which is a bit of a bland cliche anyway.

You could just as easily say that for evil to succeed all good people have to do is something possibly originally well intentioned but ultimately naive (or ironically, cynical) and poorly thought through.

Sorry to wrongly ascribe the quotation Edmund Burke I believe, but I find it more pithy than your verbiage.