Osama Bin Laden
 

Great news today.
At last some closure for Americans.
We must expect terrorist retaliation, I suppose, but it's the necessary price we have to pay.
Congratulations to our American friends.

Seconded here.

Aw come on, it's just a ruse. Everybody knows our president is the real Bin Laden. :mad:

Thanks David and John.

Thanks, David and John.

Yes, thanks David.

And it's not just Americans, though admittedly the greatest public toll has been on this country. He also brought immense shame to an entire religion, and surely set back any positive perceptions (among many Caucasians, at least) of the Arabic races. While such generalizations are abhorrent, they do exist, and they likely wouldn't have existed to such a degree had Bin Laden not done all he had done.

I'm so disappointed to see all the stories about conspiracy theories etc. floating around the internet. It really should be a time for rejoicing for a day or two before we all carry on with the next phase of our lives.

I think rejoicing is the wrong word.

Nemo

Very mixed feelings here, living as I do in a very military town. Along with the understandable relief of the families of servicemen and -women, families of 9/11 victims, etc., I'm hearing lots of unseemly hate-filled chest-thumping and taunting from the very same people who spew such hate-filled, violent rhetoric against all opponents, political and military. Shudder.

But then, I was the only kid who was appalled when all those nice Munchkins sang "Ding, Dong, the Witch Is Dead" in The Wizard of Oz, too...

Now, I'm no fan of Islamist terrorism, but I can't understand rejoicing at this. Whatever the worth of killing Osama bin Laden, the world has not just been made a 'safer place', as I read somewhere. If anything, the opposite is true, and that is not something to rejoice. Al Qaeda exists: you can't shoot the (figure)head to kill the ghoul.

Most of what I read or hear on the news suggests that this is widely being seen in America as a revenge killing, which is very dark stuff indeed. It is also very human, of course.

I don't expect this comment to go down well here, and I don't mind that.

So, terrorist retaliation (i.e. potential mass murder) is a 'necessary price' for our killing Bin Laden? I'm just dealing with the logic as it is presented. It is a very high price to pay. I hope nobody you love is caught up in paying this necessary price.