What is your reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden?

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Or because the photo could be used as propaganda by Al-Quada members to spur revenge attacks.

I totally agree that Osama Bin Laden should have been captured alive and faced a trial. But unfortunately this is not a mainstream opinion.

I was shocked, then I thought it was good timing on killing him before the 10 anniversary of 9/11.

Check out Alex Jones death hoax rant.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wAi1tUh-I[/youtube]

Well if Osama was captured alive it would put an end to all of these conspiracy theories.

No, mere reality never stops a good conspiracy theory. They'd drop back to the idea that the "captive bin Laden" was actually an actor, or that all footage of him was faked.

As for the picture, to quote Jon Stewart, "A photo will end the speculation - just like the Zapruder film put an end to all that JFK nonsense."

I think the reason why Osama was not taken alive is because most people want the military solution for solving problems.

I think the reason he was shot is he was too close to his beloved AK-47. If it were me, I would definitely worry about that since every video of him shows him cradling it in his arms. Better safe than sorry. I would shoot first, ask questions later.
I heard on the radio Bin Laden was acting humble and fragile. He was probably doing it so he could get to his guns which were close by in the bedroom. He was trying to disarm everyone there.

But I thought Bin Laden was unarmed when he was shot.

He wasn't holding any firearms but they were in the room with him.

I don't think that there was any concerted effort to take Bin Laden alive. Military men are trained to kill period. They are not trained as pacifists nor are they trained as policemen or peace officers. Yes, if Bin Laden had his hands up his life might have been spared but these special forces did not go out of their way to take Bin Laden alive.

a bit disgusted at the "rah rah USA!" stuff.

otherwise curious for reasons i'm not clear on, unsettled as i always am by untimely death despite understanding it was probably necessary.

i have exerted more energy struggling to determine whether Pakistan was deliberately harboring him than anything else.

questioning the sometimes frat-boy like arrogance and posturing of americans does not make one anti-american.

(i am american)

Violence rather than being the solution only begets more violence.

Yeah, isn't it terrible how all that violence in Europe and the Pacific back in the '40s didn't stop the Third Reich or the Empire of Nippon? It's like no matter how badly they lost the war, the Germans and Japanese just keep hating America. It's just terrible how the Werewolves are still setting off those bombs in Paris, and the Japanese just plain won't surrender no matter what...

...oh, wait, those problems did get pretty well sorted out, didn't they?

The violence of WW2 eliminated Fascism, Nazism and the Imperial ambitions of Japan. We killed these systems dead.

ruveyn

bacon does not belong on toast in my world, and i do not like ham in any shape or form.
bacon and toast in the same mouthful does not seem appetizing to me (let alone ham and toast).



truss tomatoes are exploding with flavor at the moment, and i power up the grill in my oven and put the wire rack on the highest "nubs" (i suppose i would call them).
i slice the tomatoes into equal thickness discs. i then thaw the butter in the microwave so it is easy to spread, and i proceed to toast the bread on both sides.

when the toast is how i like it, i extract it and butter it, and fit the tomato slices on the top of it after cutting them to the design that i know will equally pave the surface of the toast all the way to it's crust boundaries and not beyond.
i salt the tomatoes and twist the pepper grinder over them.

processed cheese slices are not as big as the toast slice, so 2 slices of cheese must be used, but i can not let them overlap because then i will have an area of sickly gooey cheesy overabundance that i am not partial to. i leave one slice unaltered, and i cut the other one into 3 equal strips, and i cut one third of the length off one of the three equal strips. i place the full slice so it fits into a corner of the toast and i lay the 2 strips on the adjacent edges, and i place the "third of a third" strip in the unpaved corner diagonally opposite from the corner that the whole slice was fitted into.

the processed cheese bubbles away and then rises like a pillow and goes brown, and the snack is delightful.

anyway the death of bin laden is fading away in the media. i had a dream a few days ago (after imagining a similar thing during that day) that barack obama was actually osama bin laden without a disguise. i dreamed that it was discovered that obama wore dentures, and he had another set in his drawer that matched the dentures of bin laden. a fake beard was then discovered, and it was realized that obama was a dual identity with his alter ego being osama.
but this discovery horrified both the east and the west so much, that they both had to stop and scratch their heads.

whatever.
the air is just as tasteless as it was when he was alive so i guess he is not a factor that influences my attitude to existence.