”I will 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.
Martin Luther King would have been useless against the Nazi conquest of Europe with that line of thinking.
Of COURSE war and death is sometimes necessary to bring peace and restore safety. You can't 'love' evil into being good again.
I am pretty sure that people had a right to hate OBL, and there are alot of people who have found peace with this. Until the evil is in your house bearing down on your family, you may not understand this.
best,
Cal
I think the arguments for him being alive are somewhat credible, especially due to the purposeful lack of evidence, but I doubt Obama would have gone on (inter)national TV to tell the world he was dead if he was either escaped or captured. Too much of a crapstorm if the truth ever got out (bigger than most other crapstorms from other presidential lies).
If he'd been captured, they'd have kept it hushed. Putting Saddam on such a public trial was a big mistake, since it actually stirred up sympathy for him in some groups and made America look like the bad guys.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but America has looked like the bad guys since 'Nam.
Still, Osama is dead, the misguided cause... not so much. You can't just destroy what's been going on for 10 years with one swift strike. This will just teach the next leader some new tricks.
I think the arguments for him being alive are somewhat credible, especially due to the purposeful lack of evidence, but I doubt Obama would have gone on (inter)national TV to tell the world he was dead if he was either escaped or captured. Too much of a crapstorm if the truth ever got out (bigger than most other crapstorms from other presidential lies).
If he'd been captured, they'd have kept it hushed. Putting Saddam on such a public trial was a big mistake, since it actually stirred up sympathy for him in some groups and made America look like the bad guys.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but America has looked like the bad guys since 'Nam.
Still, Osama is dead, the misguided cause... not so much. You can't just destroy what's been going on for 10 years with one swift strike. This will just teach the next leader some new tricks.
Good point =P.
Actually, two good points. It reminded me of all the news reports asking it this would be the end of al qaeda, which is a stupid question. It's the death of one man. If the death of one man could destroy an organisation, then the American government would have collapsed after the death of JFK, or Lincoln, or however many other governments and organisations have suffered the sudden loss of their head (Saddam doesn't count, since there was a full-scale invasion behind his demise).
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