Osama Bin Laden is dead

[MendoDave]

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_4787.html

[Raux]

On Friday Germany picked up 3 Al Queda plotting attacks here (in Germany). Sunday/Monday we get their boss.
Wonder if there was a connection.
Wonder if that makes us American's in Germany bigger targets?
Wonder what Americans will say when Al Queda sends 12yr-olds into crowds in a western country? Will they be shocked that Al Queda is still active despite their boss being dead?

Don't get me wrong, very glad the ass is dead. But there are more out there, and we should never quit til they all are dead. We have got to stop their 'spiritual' leaders from teaching new generations of killers.

[zarn02]

But there are more out there, and we should never quit til they all are dead.

Military action lead to destruction. Destruction breeds resentment and anger. Resentment and anger are the fertilizer of terrorism.

You can't end terrorism by "killing 'em all, and letting God sort 'em out."

[Raux]

Military action lead to destruction. Destruction breeds resentment and anger. Resentment and anger are the fertilizer of terrorism.

You can't end terrorism by "killing 'em all, and letting God sort 'em out."

true, not alone, but without it you can't get rid of the formentors of the actions.
Education is how you rid the world of the radical ideals of those not taken action.

[Drunken Monkey]

I'm going to avoid the Monday morning quarterbacking and prognostications and just offer a quote and a suggestion :

"We sleep soundly in our beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf." - Winston Churchill

Next time you see a veteran, be they millitary, para-military or even "Foreign Service attache to No Such Agency"... Thank them for their service.

[redxblack]

a dangerous shark lost an important tooth. dead leaders often become martyrs.

i should be a professional buzzkill.

[Timmy Tucker]

My mom stormed in the room and announced that Obama was dead and she was pretty make the beast with two backsing cheerful about it. We went back and forth a few times...
"What?!?! Obama's dead?"
"Yes, Obama is dead. Itsn't that great?"
"Obama is dead? Are you serious?"
"Yup. They just announced it on the news."
"The president is dead?"
"Huh? Shit... I meant Bin Laden"
"Oh. You were starting to worry me."

[DoubleEagle]

I dare say our next fight will be on an even bigger scale.

Iran is planning the take over of Iraq once we leave as well as Libya and 80 % of the people in Egypt want to break the treaty w. Israel.

Islamic Brotherhood , Shia Muslims who want Shria Law to be the Law of the land .

Our next great enemy.

Dolph

[zarn02]

And I hear the Eye or Sauron is located in a suburb of Tehran.

[IZ]

FBI most wanted hasn't been updated yet.

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_by_the_fbi

[IZ]

I dare say our next fight will be on an even bigger scale.
Iran is planning the take over of Iraq once we leave as well as Libya and 80 % of the people in Egypt want to break the treaty w. Israel.
Islamic Brotherhood , Shia Muslims who want Shria Law to be the Law of the land .
Our next great enemy.
Dolph

[RAT900]

I feel like we should get one little piece of freedom back after this. Presumably we are safer now that out National Boogie Man is not under the bed any more. Nothing extravagant like expecting there to be judicial review before our government wire taps its own citizens. No, no.  Something simple. Perhaps we no longer have to remove our shoes before e get on a plane. I think that would be the best way to celebrate a good yet completely anticlimactic event. we all wear shoes through security. At least you'll be able to stand there in comfort while the TSA gives you a reach around. Sound good?


sac

Symbolically well its a nice thing, albeit too little too late...

but props to the military for the belated clean-up


As for our Bill of Rights and civil liberties being turned into a thin confectionary icing on a 7 layer shit cake of reality,, I offer this Sac:

Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act 5, scene 1.

There's knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me
your hand. What's done cannot be undone.

[il d00d]

And I hear the Eye or Sauron is located in a suburb of Tehran.

Hah!  It is a complicated situation in Iran these days

"The disapproval increased when Ahmadinejad stopped going to work eight days ago, which led to rumors that he was about to resign over the Supreme Leader's intervention.."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ahmadinejad-returns-to-work-says-no-rift-with-khamenei/2011/05/01/AFTLcuTF_story.html

Anyways, Mission seems a little more Accomplished tonight.  Hopefully this will hasten the return of troops from Afghanistan - someone on CNN tonight pointed out that most Afghans have no idea what 9/11 was and only a vague notion of who Bin Laden was.  Time to end it.

[craigo]

Mission Accomplished?

[IZ]

supposedly buried at sea