It only cost US$1 trillion, 10 years, 2,340 coalition, 8,739+ Afghan forces & 1000s of civilians/innocent deaths
Just another loss of human life.... a victory that he's out of the picture, no doubt. But that an entire nation is celebrating a death as if it were a sports win is sickening to my soul.
I agree with these guys, people are gathering in MASSIVE crowds in the US to celebrate death. I'd say that dying maybe what he disserved, but we don't go down to the local prison to celebrate convicts getting executed either.
Good points, indeed.
The celebrations going on are mainly celebrating revenge and only serve to fuel the megalomania of the USA. This in turn will increase hatred and help recruit people for more terrorist attacks against the western world.
Being executed like this is not justice. Imprisonment or a death sentence (which I am no proponent of either) would have been way better. The guy was in hiding and cut of from the world. This won't make the world any safer, but his martyrdom will inspire a next generation.
I agree; I also felt the same when they were talking about the death of three of Gaddafi's grandsons a few days ago by NATO. Yes, Gaddafi might be an enemy, but they're just kids.
Honestly that's why I like watching Doctor Who. He's even trying to save the Daleks or the Master at times because he's just that nice of a guy. It's a good message for kids. Of course in the last episode they were happily shooting aliens....a turn for the worse in that series?
Just thought I'd add:
10 years, $1.2 trillion dollars, 5,885 US military casualties, 104,588 civilian casualties, and two war torn countries later, we have Osama bin Laden. We won? WTF?
Lets take a step back in history here. Does anyone remember those guys who called themselves the USSR? Oh yeah! That's right! We won because we BANKRUPTED THEM! One man and 3 airplanes totally crippled our country. If this is victory then I want no part of it.
We have created more of these extremists because of our stupidity. I am not saying that Osama did not deserve his fate, far from it, but how was any of this a good thing? I can only speak for myself, but I vow to never be fooled by 'patriotism' again. I must admit that I am as guilty as anyone when it came to saying 'go get those guys that hurt us'. I cannot apologize and say anything because hindsight is 20-20, but I can change my future opinions. None of this war was worth the price we paid. This was not finding the guy who robbed the liquor store on the corner. We committed genocide on a people who did not even deserve it.
If those WBC morons went over to the Middle East killed 3k people and then those countries came and bombed the shit out of 100k of our citizens WHO HAD NO IDEA WHO THE FUCK THE WBC EVEN WERE what do you think would happen? Make no mistake this war had nothing to do with justice, revenge or any other banner you want to tack on it. That moron would have died soon enough, he had liver disease. I will say it again, I am as guilty as everyone else in my country when we were all crying out for 'justice'. But I won't let this happen again, I will protest ALL future wars (unless mother fucking aliens, zombies or vampires attack). In the modern arena there is no reason to use force except for defense.
This is a time for reflection, not celebration.