So, the US claim to have removed Osama bin Laden permanently from the game, something they have wanted to do since George W Bush came out of his log cabin looking for bears after 9/11. They got their man. The man supposedly** responsible for a large swathe of anti-western terrorism.
So now America, a devoutly Christian country, is whooping and hollering in celebration that they killed another human. Aren’t these supposed to be tolerant Christian people who love their enemies and abhor the taking of life, any life?
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of what al-Qaeda have done, and of the US murdering Osama bin Laden, does anyone else find the partying and celebration going on right now in America obscene?
** I say “supposedly” because the only evidence we have is what the US (and its allies) care to release to us. We do not (know that we) have enough information to be able to make a correctly informed judgement. I wonder if anyone actually does?
I don't think they should be celebrating. They've just proved they are no better than Al Qaeda. Going into another country without permission and killing people – terrorism in other words. He should have been captured and stood trial like any other alleged criminal.
Yes, I found it obscene and also think it's a slippery slope, who's next? Also we're no safer, in more danger if anything. Imagine if the shoe were on the other foot and the celebrating had been over the killing of a western leader.
Yes, indeed so. Let's hope it isn't a slippery slope though.