Posted by childplease on 5/2/2011 12:40:00 AM (view original):
Posted by dahsdebater on 5/2/2011 12:35:00 AM (view original):
Am I the only person here who doesn't feel like it's appropriate to celebrate the death of anyone? Ever? I mean, I'm even a Republican. Moderate Republican. But Republican. But I'm still not celebrating by any means... Am I glad that he's dead? I guess... I'm glad that he's out of power. The man was incredibly brilliant and put it to a very bad use. But I'm not going to celebrate his being killed.
I feel the same way as I have somewhat have the same beliefs. But regardless, he committed and was in charge of mass intentions to kill. However, It is a big boost for morale purposes, as the whole "war on terror" has really not achieved anything. Whether is was last week or today (who knows), he probably got shot, at least thats what they said. Celebrate is just not the right word I guess.
I'm not going to complain that he is gone and we just need to move on to more important issues in society.
Yeah, I was commenting to my wife that it made me uneasy to see people celebrating in the streets in a way that felt similar to fans after a Super Bowl or national title win. Also struck me as a bit too similar to footage we've seen in the past from some Arab countries celebrating things that shouldn't be celebrated while we all thought, "Wow -- what barbarians".
It's a great thing that we finally got Bin Laden. He was an evil, awful force against humanity and deserved whatever he got. It's wonderful for our country and the world that he's gone.
But still, the jubilant celebration in the streets just feels wrong to me.