Osama bin Laden: DEAD!

[Ninja Performance]

Keeping with Mulsim tradition the body has to be buried speedily(within 24 hours on average). This leaves no time to be playing phone tag around the world to see if anyone would accept his carcass. His home country (Saudi) was asked and they said no. I think that's more than enough. I think we all realize headlines tend to oversensationalize just a weeee bit.

Jeremy

So, we wanted to keep with muslim tradition, you know, after we KILLED him. That just doesnt' make sense.

-Chris

[HilbillyHomeboy]

Just respect for a religion, so as not to cause a big backlash. I found that to be extremely impressive, respectful, and diplomatic...took the high road, makes us look good.

Jeremy

[onebadmollafolla]

[UTRacerX9]

...took the high road, makes us look good.

Jeremy

...After we killed him. LOL You have to appreciate the irony of your statement man.

[IPD]

Just respect for a religion, so as not to cause a big backlash. I found that to be extremely impressive, respectful, and diplomatic...took the high road, makes us look good.

Jeremy

this is really what it all boils down to. we have no hope of winning a battle of depravity with terrorists; so we must consistently take the moral high-road in order to maintain international support and sanction for our actions in combating it. i understand why it was done, and i agree with it being done; i would still have preferred other alternatives. however, it's not about me--or even the US body public. it really has to do with maintaining international favor towards our actions. future offensives against terror will be exponentially harder without that support. it's a bitter, necessary pill.

so yes, although my personal sadistic side would gleefully enjoy making a shrine for him & sniping people who come to pay homage...what was done was the correct course of action. and gtojoe, making said "shrine" would be no worse than the booby-trapping of our soldiers bodies with IED's--or strapping IED's to kids. yes, it's a deplorably insensitive idea. and so is putting osama's head on a pike; using his body to recreate the fallujah debacle, or creating a national "piss on osama's grave" day on the national mall. they're all bad ideas. still...it's cathartic to dream what we'd wish we could do to someone as inhuman as osama.

[HilbillyHomeboy]

...After we killed him. LOL You have to appreciate the irony of your statement man.

We could have made one of those super classy beheading videos like they do.... I stand firm on my point that we came out of this very clean. How much anti-American talk have you heard as a direct result of us eliminating him? There's good reason why you haven't...see next post below.

this is really what it all boils down to. we have no hope of winning a battle of depravity with terrorists; so we must consistently take the moral high-road in order to maintain international support and sanction for our actions in combating it. i understand why it was done, and i agree with it being done; i would still have preferred other alternatives. however, it's not about me--or even the US body public. it really has to do with maintaining international favor towards our actions. future offensives against terror will be exponentially harder without that support. it's a bitter, necessary pill.

so yes, although my personal sadistic side would gleefully enjoy making a shrine for him & sniping people who come to pay homage...what was done was the correct course of action. and gtojoe, making said "shrine" would be no worse than the booby-trapping of our soldiers bodies with IED's--or strapping IED's to kids. yes, it's a deplorably insensitive idea. and so is putting osama's head on a pike; using his body to recreate the fallujah debacle, or creating a national "piss on osama's grave" day on the national mall. they're all bad ideas. still...it's cathartic to dream what we'd wish we could do to someone as inhuman as osama.

[Ninja Performance]

Just respect for a religion, so as not to cause a big backlash. I found that to be extremely impressive, respectful, and diplomatic...took the high road, makes us look good.

Jeremy

So was it also respectful of religion to kill him? Without a trail? Judge, jury, and executioner?
Don't get me wrong, he got what was coming to him. Period. But to play the dump in the water because it's respectful seems funny to me since we just murdered him.

-Chris

[AgentOblivious]

So was it also respectful of religion to kill him? Without a trail? Judge, jury, and executioner?
Don't get me wrong, he got what was coming to him. Period. But to play the dump in the water because it's respectful seems funny to me since we just murdered him.

-Chris

When you die it a firefight its cause you lost...




P.S. Its amazing what Americans can do when the Playstation Network is down....lol

[UTRacerX9]

Don't get me wrong, he got what was coming to him. Period. But to play the dump in the water because it's respectful seems funny to me since we just murdered him.

-Chris

My thoughts exactly. I'm not arguing that how we disposed of him was wrong, Jeremy. It was the right thing to do. But I'm with Chris, I think that "being respectful" after we killed him isn't really going to matter too much to the people that we are trying to placate here.

[HilbillyHomeboy]

He had already had his trial many times over, self-imposed at that; his greatest hits home movie collection over the course of the last two+ decades speaks for itself, literally. As for getting dead, he shot, we shot back...apparently we shot better.

So yes, in the name of international diplomacy we most certainly handled the "burying" of his body extremely well.

Jeremy