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May 4, 2011 at 9:30 AM #693202May 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM #692025ShadowfaxParticipant
[quote=gandalf]I don’t know. I like the MLK quote and all, but this is Bin Laden we’re talking about. 9/11 was horrible.
I think we had some tentacles in there somewhere. It’s possible people in the know let it happen, but AQ was the perpetrator, what happened was evil, and justice has been done.
Q: Why does Bin Laden carry a bag of shit around in his pocket?
A: Photo ID…[/quote]
Rus: I like the MLK quote too but unfortunately light and love are poor weapons–look at the massacre of the monks in Tibet(?) a year or so ago. I will say again that his death was a necessary evil but it was still revenge.
The higher ground would have been capture and trial, along the lines of Hussein. From news reports, it doesn’t seem like he significantly resisted capture. Maybe he was just executed to make the mission easier. I wouldn’t make much noise if bringing him back alive would have jeopardized the mission–kill him and be done. But I don’t find much joy in it, like I’ve said.
It’s been bad form for the US to celebrate his death by what was essentially another act of terrorism, if you think about it.
Gandalf: is that tentacles or Tentacles?
May 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM #692098ShadowfaxParticipant[quote=gandalf]I don’t know. I like the MLK quote and all, but this is Bin Laden we’re talking about. 9/11 was horrible.
I think we had some tentacles in there somewhere. It’s possible people in the know let it happen, but AQ was the perpetrator, what happened was evil, and justice has been done.
Q: Why does Bin Laden carry a bag of shit around in his pocket?
A: Photo ID…[/quote]
Rus: I like the MLK quote too but unfortunately light and love are poor weapons–look at the massacre of the monks in Tibet(?) a year or so ago. I will say again that his death was a necessary evil but it was still revenge.
The higher ground would have been capture and trial, along the lines of Hussein. From news reports, it doesn’t seem like he significantly resisted capture. Maybe he was just executed to make the mission easier. I wouldn’t make much noise if bringing him back alive would have jeopardized the mission–kill him and be done. But I don’t find much joy in it, like I’ve said.
It’s been bad form for the US to celebrate his death by what was essentially another act of terrorism, if you think about it.
Gandalf: is that tentacles or Tentacles?
May 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM #692697ShadowfaxParticipant[quote=gandalf]I don’t know. I like the MLK quote and all, but this is Bin Laden we’re talking about. 9/11 was horrible.
I think we had some tentacles in there somewhere. It’s possible people in the know let it happen, but AQ was the perpetrator, what happened was evil, and justice has been done.
Q: Why does Bin Laden carry a bag of shit around in his pocket?
A: Photo ID…[/quote]
Rus: I like the MLK quote too but unfortunately light and love are poor weapons–look at the massacre of the monks in Tibet(?) a year or so ago. I will say again that his death was a necessary evil but it was still revenge.
The higher ground would have been capture and trial, along the lines of Hussein. From news reports, it doesn’t seem like he significantly resisted capture. Maybe he was just executed to make the mission easier. I wouldn’t make much noise if bringing him back alive would have jeopardized the mission–kill him and be done. But I don’t find much joy in it, like I’ve said.
It’s been bad form for the US to celebrate his death by what was essentially another act of terrorism, if you think about it.
Gandalf: is that tentacles or Tentacles?
May 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM #692842ShadowfaxParticipant[quote=gandalf]I don’t know. I like the MLK quote and all, but this is Bin Laden we’re talking about. 9/11 was horrible.
I think we had some tentacles in there somewhere. It’s possible people in the know let it happen, but AQ was the perpetrator, what happened was evil, and justice has been done.
Q: Why does Bin Laden carry a bag of shit around in his pocket?
A: Photo ID…[/quote]
Rus: I like the MLK quote too but unfortunately light and love are poor weapons–look at the massacre of the monks in Tibet(?) a year or so ago. I will say again that his death was a necessary evil but it was still revenge.
The higher ground would have been capture and trial, along the lines of Hussein. From news reports, it doesn’t seem like he significantly resisted capture. Maybe he was just executed to make the mission easier. I wouldn’t make much noise if bringing him back alive would have jeopardized the mission–kill him and be done. But I don’t find much joy in it, like I’ve said.
It’s been bad form for the US to celebrate his death by what was essentially another act of terrorism, if you think about it.
Gandalf: is that tentacles or Tentacles?
May 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM #693192ShadowfaxParticipant[quote=gandalf]I don’t know. I like the MLK quote and all, but this is Bin Laden we’re talking about. 9/11 was horrible.
I think we had some tentacles in there somewhere. It’s possible people in the know let it happen, but AQ was the perpetrator, what happened was evil, and justice has been done.
Q: Why does Bin Laden carry a bag of shit around in his pocket?
A: Photo ID…[/quote]
Rus: I like the MLK quote too but unfortunately light and love are poor weapons–look at the massacre of the monks in Tibet(?) a year or so ago. I will say again that his death was a necessary evil but it was still revenge.
The higher ground would have been capture and trial, along the lines of Hussein. From news reports, it doesn’t seem like he significantly resisted capture. Maybe he was just executed to make the mission easier. I wouldn’t make much noise if bringing him back alive would have jeopardized the mission–kill him and be done. But I don’t find much joy in it, like I’ve said.
It’s been bad form for the US to celebrate his death by what was essentially another act of terrorism, if you think about it.
Gandalf: is that tentacles or Tentacles?
May 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM #692040ShadowfaxParticipantArraya, you make some good points.
May 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM #692113ShadowfaxParticipantArraya, you make some good points.
May 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM #692712ShadowfaxParticipantArraya, you make some good points.
May 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM #692857ShadowfaxParticipantArraya, you make some good points.
May 4, 2011 at 9:45 AM #693207ShadowfaxParticipantArraya, you make some good points.
May 4, 2011 at 9:52 AM #692045RenParticipantLOL at the Guardian being the voice of the world. They are the voice of the blissfully deluded.
Besides the ridiculous comparisons of terrible wartime errors and a few reckless and stupid U.S. soldiers to a monster like Bin Laden, the problem with that writer’s sentiment (and the [almost?] MLK quote) is that muslim extremists have no respect for love or diplomacy, so it just plain doesn’t work with them. You can tell a rabid pit bull how much you care until you’re blue in the face, but it’s still going to eat your poodle, because it doesn’t think the way you do.
Whether we handled it perfectly or not, no one can argue that he didn’t need to be taken out of action, and he certainly deserves to be dead. It’s a credit to the discipline of the SEAL team that they didn’t put 50 holes in him.
May 4, 2011 at 9:52 AM #692118RenParticipantLOL at the Guardian being the voice of the world. They are the voice of the blissfully deluded.
Besides the ridiculous comparisons of terrible wartime errors and a few reckless and stupid U.S. soldiers to a monster like Bin Laden, the problem with that writer’s sentiment (and the [almost?] MLK quote) is that muslim extremists have no respect for love or diplomacy, so it just plain doesn’t work with them. You can tell a rabid pit bull how much you care until you’re blue in the face, but it’s still going to eat your poodle, because it doesn’t think the way you do.
Whether we handled it perfectly or not, no one can argue that he didn’t need to be taken out of action, and he certainly deserves to be dead. It’s a credit to the discipline of the SEAL team that they didn’t put 50 holes in him.
May 4, 2011 at 9:52 AM #692717RenParticipantLOL at the Guardian being the voice of the world. They are the voice of the blissfully deluded.
Besides the ridiculous comparisons of terrible wartime errors and a few reckless and stupid U.S. soldiers to a monster like Bin Laden, the problem with that writer’s sentiment (and the [almost?] MLK quote) is that muslim extremists have no respect for love or diplomacy, so it just plain doesn’t work with them. You can tell a rabid pit bull how much you care until you’re blue in the face, but it’s still going to eat your poodle, because it doesn’t think the way you do.
Whether we handled it perfectly or not, no one can argue that he didn’t need to be taken out of action, and he certainly deserves to be dead. It’s a credit to the discipline of the SEAL team that they didn’t put 50 holes in him.
May 4, 2011 at 9:52 AM #692862RenParticipantLOL at the Guardian being the voice of the world. They are the voice of the blissfully deluded.
Besides the ridiculous comparisons of terrible wartime errors and a few reckless and stupid U.S. soldiers to a monster like Bin Laden, the problem with that writer’s sentiment (and the [almost?] MLK quote) is that muslim extremists have no respect for love or diplomacy, so it just plain doesn’t work with them. You can tell a rabid pit bull how much you care until you’re blue in the face, but it’s still going to eat your poodle, because it doesn’t think the way you do.
Whether we handled it perfectly or not, no one can argue that he didn’t need to be taken out of action, and he certainly deserves to be dead. It’s a credit to the discipline of the SEAL team that they didn’t put 50 holes in him.
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