Poll: So, Bin Laden, you give a shit?

[zhoominator]

Frankly, I'm surprised this has gained sooo much press and so many topics on here. Sure he is a big bad terrorist but so what? This dude is old news. If this happened 2001-2004 I may have cared. It's 2011, people have moved on. At least I thought they had.

This is utterly stupid and it's probably the last Osama thread I'm going to post in. Terrorism is like an incredibly violent internet troll. If you just deal with the problem then ignore it, they'll stop because they don't get the reaction they want. The people who make a big deal of it help create these monsters, sure you could blame the media, but people still read the papers and watch the news.

Unless you knew someone who died on 9/11: Get the fuck over yourselves.
If you did: please move on now, the dude is dead, you have closure. Just sayin'.

 

[diebane]

Yes, I give a shit, no, I don't celebrate his death because many people have been killed in the process and it might even make things worse.

mfG diebane

 

[Lenin211]

The terrorists now have a martyr, Great...

 

[Luke5515]

Do I care? Yes I do. I'm glad we finally got him.
Will it change anything? Not really. They'll find a new head of operations and continue on.
Although, it might damage their cash flow.

 

[Vigormortis]

I give a shit in a very specific way. While everyone on facebook and in the streets seems to be running around being happy, I'm just waiting for another major bombing.

I say this because Osama was a ranking leader of a cell-based organization (or so I've been told, anyway). From what I remember, each cell acts independently unless calling upon a partnership with other cells in order to pursue a common mission. Thus, it is entirely impossible to wipe out the leadership of the "terrorist" movement unless one were to exterminate every last cell down to its junior members and sympathizers.

Osama may be dead but I fear his death will bring about acts of vengeance and rates of violence against Americans and American interests will grow. Perhaps this growth will be brief or prolonged, who's to say. Either way, I'm not jubilant; I'm wary.

Oh wow. This. This to a "T". While I was shocked to hear the news last night, I was also somewhat glad to hear he's gone. However, the more I thought on it, like you, the more I convinced myself that there will likely be some form of retaliation. Apparently the US military had the exact same thought as they've since drastically increased security at bases home and abroad.

On a related note, was it just me or did anyone else find it somewhat disturbing to see so many people literally cheering and openly celebrating the death of another human being? Sure the guy was one of the lead masterminds behind a bevy of terrorist attacks (not just the 9/11 attacks) that resulted in the deaths of thousands and thousands of civilians, but he was still a human being. I'm not bothered that he's gone, by any stretch of the imagination, but to celebrate someone's death just seems to me to be just as dismissive of human life as the ones who are committing these terrorist acts. Not that I'm saying we should mourn his passing, but to be "happy" and "jubilant" about it? That just seems wrong to me.

 

[Kathinka]

well, considered that he was less of a threat for world piece then any u.s.-president, i don't really care. those guys should be brought to an international tribunal and hung up high.

 

[Smertnik]

I don't really care about Osama but I find it kinda sick that people are happy about his death. That's just wrong. And it's not like he's the Big Evil Boss of Terrorism upon whose death all the terrorists will magically disappear.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Not really. Killing one person isn't going to change anything, but the peace of mind that it will bring to the US people is nice.

I'm more worried Osama is going to be seen as a martyr and more attacks will be planned honestly.

CAPTCHA: the youtard

Favorite one yet.

EDIT:

I don't really care about Osama but I find it kinda sick that people are happy about his death. That's just wrong. And it's not like he's the Big Evil Boss of Terrorism upon whose death all the terrorists will magically disappear.

See, I hate this argument. People celebrated when Hitler died. Was that wrong? How's this any different?

If it continues, then yeah, there is such a thing as overkill. But for the day, to be happy that he is done, I don't blame them one bit.

 

[Kathinka]

CAPTCHA: the youtard
Favorite one yet.

i see your youtard and raise with my "university of cocks." from the other day.

sorry for oftoppic, i'll stop now^^

 

[The Common Hours]

im not gonna celebrate the death of a man, who celebrated the death of so many others. im gonna celebrate the end of the bad influence he had on others.

 

[Zaverexus]

Nope. I didn't find out until this morning and I don't see that the world has suddenly become a glorious, wonderful place full of smiling, happy people.
The people who lost their lives on 9/11 are still dead, as are those who died fighting in the Middle East, no amount of killing really changes that.
Plus, no matter who he was or what he did, I feel a bit ashamed to live in a country overjoyed to find that someone has died. I'm not saying there was any great alternative, but I don't exactly like cheering for death, and whether it was all worth it is still to be seen. Hopefully we can get all our troops back home soon... and right back into another war... great

 

[Relmfig]

I certainly give a shit, but t doesn't mean we've won anything.

This is just progress. (and closure for some)

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Just like Hitler wasn't actually responsible for the holocaust because he just organized it. By your logic no leader is actually accountable for anything.

OT: I am thrilled, straight-up. Over two-thirds of my life has been spent watching bin Laden rise to power as his attacks got more and more vicious. When I was little a group of terrorists would hijack a plane and take people hostage as collateral for political demands; all this suicide bombing and murder for murder's sake is just plain mad.

No, by my logic killing Bin Laden is more symbolic than anything else. Imagine going back in time and killing Hitler at around 1940-ish. Just Hitler. But you've still got Goebbels, Himmler, and any number of other high ranking Nazis who would have taken his place and done more or less exactly what he did, if not something worse. I would have gotten much more satisfaction had they taken him alive and brought him to trial. What's he accountable for now? Nothing because he's dead.

I just don't get how people call the actual hijackers a bunch of cowards, but treat Osama like he's a mastermind. Cowardice is making a bunch of other people do your dirty work. It's like the Manson killings. Who's worse, Charlie Manson or Susan Atkins? For my money, it's the woman who slit the throats.

 

[Dr_Baron_von_Evilsatan]

Yes I give a shit. I think it's awesome the bastard is dead. As for the "dislike people celebrating someone's death" argument I would like to point out that most of us believe he lost his status as "human" and became a monster long ago.

 

[The Night Shade]

No,I don't give a shit

 

[Drago-Morph]

Good thing he's dead, but not quite as big deal imo. It'd be a completely different thing if they'd managed to frag him like a week or month after the WTC attacks.

I'm actually pretty sure the only reason it's such a big deal is because of how elusive he was.

I don't feel like retyping my post, so I'll just reuse the one I put in another thread.

Honestly, unless you've been living here since 9/11, you can't judge us for making such a big deal out of it. In fact, you should really consider what it means as a whole, not just "Oh, this didn't stop Al'qaeda, so meh". He has been looming over this country like a damned ghost, taunting us, becoming a symbol for everything that's gone wrong. 9/11, the wars, the subsequent economic crash; the citizens, government, and media have all been tracing it back to this one guy for the past decade. And now he's dead, and now Americans feel like they can finally start to come out of this massive slump. We feel like we have closure on the war on terror and can start to really end it without thinking that we're pulling out prematurely, and then we can focus on our other problems. This man, this symbol of our nation's enemies, has been evading us for 10 years, taunting us as things have fallen apart around us. And now we've killed him. And regardless of how true it is, people think that things can start to get better now, and that is a powerful feeling.

 

[Fearzone]

They should have killed the guy 10 years ago. Then there would have been cause to celebrate.

 

[Kitteh]

I was drunk at the time. That should say it all.