Sometimes there's a post so good...
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Quote:I know what you are trying to say, but we were celebrating the history and tradition of one of our national institutions and identity.And that is a specific internal occasion that is the culmination of 2000years of continuous history. What exactly does the death of Bin Laden achieve in real terms!! I understand how people would be pleased(I'm not trying to belittle that), but I think the Gov is making too big a deal.
Originally posted by TheHappyTrader:Quote:
Originally posted by peacekeeper:
What strikes me as rather strange, is that a vast superpower nation such as the USA, is throwing a big party because they have taken 10 years to kill ONE Man. Do you think that the whole Islamic terrorist shit is now going to collapse and fold because Bin Laden is dead? Is there no more organisation below Bin Laden?
I'm sorry, but your Government is easily pleased.
The fact that just one bloke's death can cause massive chants of "USA" in the streets is a pretty poor indication of how desperate you are to achieve a victory.
I'm shedding no tears over his death, but partying in the streets over one man???It's a pretty pathetic effort IMO.
Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!
I wasn't aware this became a national holiday. I certainly wasn't let out of work for it. Not that I would want to celebrate another person's death, regardless of how evil I considered them. Still, I get your point. It wasn't a royal wedding after all
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Quote:I'm pretty sure that they did. But Hitler's death signalled the end of a world war, and he was a man that had total political power in that. The death of OBL signifies the end of nothing.This war will carry on and possibly escalate VERY soon.No comparison whatsoever.
Originally posted by Kwicko:Quote:
Originally posted by peacekeeper:
What strikes me as rather strange, is that a vast superpower nation such as the USA, is throwing a big party because they have taken 10 years to kill ONE Man. Do you think that the whole Islamic terrorist shit is now going to collapse and fold because Bin Laden is dead? Is there no more organisation below Bin Laden?
I'm sorry, but your Government is easily pleased.
The fact that just one bloke's death can cause massive chants of "USA" in the streets is a pretty poor indication of how desperate you are to achieve a victory.
I'm shedding no tears over his death, but partying in the streets over one man???It's a pretty pathetic effort IMO.
Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!
Did nobody in England celebrate when Hitler's death was announced?
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Oh? I thought you were HER zealot! My bad.
That zealots follow leaders like Hitler, Saddam or Usama, has nothing to do w/ what Ayn Rand was talking about, at all.
Nope. Never even read all of Atlas Shrugged. It bored me, so I put it down. But the message that the individual should have the right to do as they please, so far as they don't impeded on the rights of others....seems like a dangerous idea to you. Wonder why.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Good one. I lol'd. :)
I'm surprised someone actually got it, rather than thinking that I simply misread the post. I was expecting a rant from someone, but they're too busy bickering like an old married polygamous couple (imagine the nightmare
) to notice that I was here at all. Maybe it's time we started seeing other forums 
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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The fact that just one bloke's death can cause massive chants of "USA" in the streets is a pretty poor indication of how desperate you are to achieve a victory.
This is more than just a tactical 'victory' - this is about overdue revenge, and justice.
This was a very fitting and satisfying end to the Bin Laden story if you ask me. He was hunted down and expertly taken out by US special forces, reportedly in his last moments using a woman as a human shield. Ok I don't revel in that woman's death - but my point is everything about this operation goes a long way towards destroying the man's courageous and invincible mystique (in radical islamist thought).
As said before: Win.
It's not personal. It's just war.
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Speaking of post that bear repeating, I saw this post on a friends facebook and lol'd
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Hey Pakistan, I know you think you're being cute when you say that it was your intelligence that led to the death of Bin Laden, but you might want to stop drawing attention to yourself while we go over Bin Laden's little black book of friends.
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...Well, crap. Judging by the popular response that's already being whipped up, we really ARE heading for a war with Pakistan.
Joyous.
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Originally posted by peacekeeper:Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Did nobody in England celebrate when Hitler's death was announced?
I'm pretty sure that they did. But Hitler's death signalled the end of a world war, and he was a man that had total political power in that. The death of OBL signifies the end of nothing.This war will carry on and possibly escalate VERY soon.No comparison whatsoever.
Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!
I think you're misremembering your history. Unless you believe that Japan surrendered the day Hitler died. As I remember it, the war carried on for quite some time after Hitler died. In fact, it escalated to a nuclear war!
If anyone expected that the death of Bin Laden would equate to the end of all terrorism, I'd have to ask them if the death of Hitler signaled an end to all Nazism. Or an end to Germans.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:Quote:
Originally posted by peacekeeper:Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Did nobody in England celebrate when Hitler's death was announced?
I'm pretty sure that they did. But Hitler's death signalled the end of a world war, and he was a man that had total political power in that. The death of OBL signifies the end of nothing.This war will carry on and possibly escalate VERY soon.No comparison whatsoever.
Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!
I think you're misremembering your history. Unless you believe that Japan surrendered the day Hitler died. As I remember it, the war carried on for quite some time after Hitler died. In fact, it escalated to a nuclear war!
If anyone expected that the death of Bin Laden would equate to the end of all terrorism, I'd have to ask them if the death of Hitler signaled an end to all Nazism. Or an end to Germans.
The death of Hitler meant the end of the war in EUROPE.So as English people, THAT was what concerned US. The Japanese conflict was YOUR problem.And no,it did not mean the end of Nazism, but is was no longer a worldwide threat and was an end to ARMED CONFLICT in Europe.
Don't be pedantic just to prove a point, son.It's embarrassing.
Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!
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Sorry, but I seem to remember some Brits and Aussies doing a bit of fighting in the Pacific Theatre as well.
You want to remember things in broad swaths, you'd do well to remember that OBL was the face and image of Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism in the last decade. As such, his death DOES mark the end of something, even if it's only a symbolic something.
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