What is your reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden?

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I think that they couldv'e captured Bin Laden and take him to this country. The celebrating of his death by many people is just aghast and uncalled for. I'm also thinking about the repercussions that might come months or years after his death.

What would be gained from having Bin Laden paraded around the United States? he would become a martry that way. He would never give up information to us and he would cost U.S taxpayers money to support his life in prison...no one wanted his ass alive. Uncalled for in celebrating the death of a genocidal a-hole who escaped from justice? sorry...i am celebrating....too many people here in new jersey and new york lost their lives..kids without parents now....siblings lost....this man lived a life of relative luxury in pakistan for the past 10 years. He gets no sympathy from me or anyone I know. Reprecussions of him being alive is also a consideration..him being alive allows a spiritual and idelaogical leader...al-qaeda is not dead, nor do we think it is dead, but bin laden got what he had coming to him.

i have no "reaction" (action generated by another action) to it.

i think that there is a minimal disruption to the flow of orderliness in the plans of "terrorist plot masterminds" due to the demise of what could only be seen as a mouthpiece really.

on the other hand, it does demonstrate that it is unlikely that one will get away with atrocities in that league no matter where you go.

are the "masterminds" as suicidal as the "suicide bombers" they assign to their tasks ? i would suspect not. but after this assassination, the masterminds may be thinking that they would find it too difficult to avoid a countermanding bullet, even if they dressed up as bananas in greece.

i have no reaction, and i have no deep interest, so i am neutral.

The guy took credit for terrorist attacks which killed thousands upon thousands of people. Need I say more?

Here's Obama's reaction to the whole thing:

Osama bin Laden was not a human being. He was a Wahabi.

ruveyn

kinda sad to indifferent..
the death itself has little impact, slightly sad because, despite many opinions to the contrary i don't believe justice was served. just cold vengeance. what's more sad is the reaction, people celebrating death & feeling so righteous about it all.. i don't think anyone is fit to judge who lives & dies..
a quote from somewhere 'why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing is wrong?'..
now to avoid this thread lest i be called names by people who think i'm wrong for not rejoicing in someone's execution

Technically, giving his remains to the sea was according to islamic funeral rites. Think i've read that in La Presse yesterday.

According to the reports, the body was washed and wrapped in white funeral cloths and the burial was done according to Islamic rite. In short, the son of a b***h murdering bastard got a decent funeral.

ruveyn

I voted "other."

I am very happy to see that bin Laden was brought justice the way he deserved. But it has been and will continue to be used ruthlessly as a propaganda machine. The media will use it (already has) to glorify America (Current headline on Google News: "Bin Laden couldn't change American character"), and portray a stark picture of freedom conquering radical Islam when it is not that simple. People who know nothing more than that America's worst enemy is dead, will (have) use it an excuse to go out and "celebrate," as if Cinco de Mayo wasn't enough. Al-Qaeda will use it as an excuse to recruit more terrorists because their leader is now a martyr. Obama will use it to bolster his poll ratings, and they will certainly rise sharply because people really are ignorant enough to believe that it was his leadership has brought down bin Laden, that Bush couldn't get him and Obama could.

The truth is, the world is hardly a safer place. Al-Zawahiri is still at large and was probably more powerful than bin Laden, who by many reports was very ill. Without in any way downplaying the tragedy of the loss of life on 9/11, current conflicts in the Middle East will likely prove far more impactful on the history of world civilization, and most people, at least here in the US, know absolutely nothing about what's going on over there right now and can't even point out the ME on a globe. They simplify it as, we got the bad guys, so we've winning the War on Terror, but the war is very complicated. Let's go wave a flag and drink lots of beer, they think.

The war is from over and it will never be over. One beer is enough.

That's my reaction in a nutshell: "Other."

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Indifferent. I know, callous. It's the truth, though.

While I wish he could have been captured and put on trial before he got lethal injection, I must admit, I've found I'm quite a bit more blood thirsty than I had thought I was as I bought a six pack to celebrate when I learned that our guys had popped him.
Well, May 1st is my birthday, so that probably had something to do with it.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The problem with a trial, as some wish, is that he would either be tried in a civilian court which would turn into a circus or he would have to be tried in a military tribunal held at...guess where...guantanamo..which is exactly what President Obama did not want to see happen...considering one of his major campaign pledges was the shut down of guantanamo...capturing him, bringing him to trial, would all create such a mess that its far better that he resisted arrest and got shot and killed. This was in the best interests of everyone.

I'm glad he is dead, but I think all the hype/celebration is a little over the top.

You're suggesting being a human being and being a murderous, rapacious, deluded, uncompromising, gullible, self-righteous cretin are somehow incompatible?



I don't know whether Obama believes it when he says that we aren't at war with Islam - which is of course untrue as regards all good Muslims of Bin Laden's ilk - but the pretence that liberal democracy and Islam can coexist is necessary realpolitik.



You do not understand the nature of the enemy. Read the Qur'an, read a biography of Mohammed, read any history of Islam; any Muslim who takes their religion seriously has a divine duty (or at least permissive mandate) to murder and/or rape, enslave and generally oppress the heck out of you. No excuse is needed. So long as the religion exists - and bear in mind it has a very severe anti-tampering protocol, it can't reform itself as some other religions can and have* - and so long as there are people prepared to get all black-and-white-thinking about it (yeah, yeah, I recognise the irony - I'd make an ace Wahhabi), they'll be the enemies of democracy, freedom, truth, justice, apple pie and all that good stuff.

*a two edged sword** if ever there was one - in practice it means Muslims can keep themselves very busy killing each other for Not Doing It Right.
**Zulfiqar, no doubt.

Anyhoo, I'm still trying to formulate a response to the OP's question. I have no problem answering as a liberal - liberal is not a synonym for "nice", he was a bad man, proponent of evil things and our sworn enemy, his death is good - or autistic - the answer is "badly, by resort to black-and-white-thinking", see above; but I cannot work out the Christian viewpoint, and I have been trying, because I feel positively glad that he's dead, and like the OP I don't know whether I can excuse that.

The Christian viewpoint, Ambivalence?

As a Christian, I know I should not take pleasure in the death of a fellow human being. As an imperfect Christian, I acknowledge that sometimes the temptation is just too strong. I'll repent later, knowing it was wrong when I did it. Fortunately, Christianity has the built-in feature where we're supposed to accept that we're imperfect, and our own efforts will never be quite good enough...

Well I do think that OBL's death was d@mned oppertunistic expecally when he lived in a freakin manson next to a major miliary establishment next to the capital of pakistan. US leaders are trying to make this look like a pakistani issue that he hid in plain sight, but what is not told is with satilite survielance of every inch of this globe at the disposal of US inteligence, why now??

The US HAD to have known where he was for quite some time. I have known this for a long time...a man on dyalisis cant hide in the mountains for years at a time or he would be dead long time ago. However what has me wondering and cant figure out is what is going on behind the scenes that killing OBL will take all the media attention for months. There as been alot of praising secret prisions and homeland security's other means of survielance, torture programs etc etc which has me spooked because it seems the underlined message is...Ya we have taken away american citizen's civil liberties and right to privacy in the name of the war on terror but see it works...we got our man." Such justification of the rapidly evaporating human rights in this country is likely, very likely, to lead to more severe destruction of our human rights.

Any time the media hornswaggles the masses like this...I look not what they are dirrectly saying, but what their hands are doing behind our backs.

It is not that I am bashing the US. I love my country and the people of my country....but I dont trust our government because they have not proven themselves trustworthy

I am glad he finally got what he done to others, but I am concerned as to the motive for killing him when I sure they knew where he was all along.