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Celebrating the death of a mass murderer does not make you "like" the mass murderer.
No, but it makes you "like" the nuts that gather in the streets of then middle east and celebrate whatever killing they deem appropriate at that time.
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Originally Posted by TriMT7
There's nothing savage about it. I'm more creeped out and concerned by anyone who is somber about the news of his death, or thinks other people SHOULDN'T react with glee.
Um, who said "somber"? I'm not mourning his death - i just think it's odd that americans, usually the ones that are most vocal about their disapproval of muslims, arabs, etc., take all of about 3 seconds to stoop to the exact same level as those they claim to so greatly oppose.
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Originally Posted by Strel
Did you really expect people to not celebrate?
Not everyone is a pacifist.
Again, with the pacifist garbage. Who's being a pacifist? We KILLED the guy: Mission Accomplished (fer realz this time!). Don't really see how much more of a statement we need to make.
I think Americans need to start acting like Americans again...
I, too, think there is something morbid about celebrating this.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with the nation feeling a sense of relief that bin Laden is dead, or a sense of patriotism, unity, whatever. And I see nothing wrong with this being on the news, or being the big subject at the water cooler, or the Hot Topic on The View. Please do talk about it!
But dancing in the streets over anyone's death disturbs me a bit. Unless, as in New Orleans, it's about celebrating their life.
The US killed over 100k innocent Iraqi's and Iraq had nothing to do with Sep 11. That would be families, including children and women. How about Abu Graib, another shining moment... the rapes and murders that US troops committed.
There's no difference on either side and it's nothing to gloat about.
I don't condone any of that either, I was never in support of the Iraq war. But Abu Ghraib, Gitmo etc...I could care less if terrorists are tortured, and whether or not the clowns at the ACLU agree, torture works! If it takes torture to get these terrorist scum talking and giving information that could round up more terrorists and prevent more terrorist attacks, then I see no problem with it.
I'm not celebrating because the reality is that we've lost thousands of soldiers (and still losing them), at least a few trillion bucks (probably much more), gallivanted all around the Middle East for 10 years.....and all along he wasn't hiding where the "experts" claim that he was hiding.
No, he was right in the backyards of the people we call our "allies," being protected by them while they laughed their asses off at us.
World Wide Alert (http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_worldwide.html - broken link)
I disagree with putting plans to travel on hold.
If you don't act like the stereotypical moron US traveler, no one would know you were from the US.
Don't wear white tennis shoes and USA t-shirts.
I live in Europe and I have no plans to curtail any of my travel.
What a silly thought.
I travel almost every week and don't plan to change anything.
I am offended by your "stereotypical moron US traveler" comment. I find it quite childish. Millions of American travelers are highly educated, intelligent and behave admirably. I doubt there is a higher percent of moron travelers among Americans than there is among Europeans.
Ok - so the world is rid of that scumbag, which is a great thing. And hats off to our military on a well-planned surgical operation based on great intelligence.
But, does anybody find it odd - even creepy - that people are gathering, cheering, flag-waving, and chanting "USA! USA!" because we killed someone?
Seems awfully savage.
If we hate muslim extremists so much, why do we act just like them?
You could say the same about the end of WW2 we nuked two cities and they were happy too.
We were way too nice with the body. We should have butchered it. Instead we were "sensitive"
We should have put the bones put in kiln, the dust put in concrete and made into a sidewalk in NYC.
The rest mixed with some dead pigs and put in a latrine for the Israeli Army.
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