Osama blah blah blah you know the story.

[Osmose1000]

Best post I've seen:

Osama bin Laden's legacy lives on with every traveler being herded through body scanners, with every illegal search in our 120-mile-radius Constitution-free zones, and with every warrantless wiretap.

Until his legacy dies, he lives on, as strong as ever.

[lilsniffs3]

Everyone at my school is treating it like the war on terror is over.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure this is gonna have a huge backlash. There will probably be more terror plots in the coming future.

[Cerebus]

Well I do think it's a good thing that he kinda paid for his crimes, but I doubt it'll change much. It might even worsen the case.

I sure hope Al Qaida doesn't unleash their rage on any hostages they may have taken, though...

[WarxePB]

Me and my mom were discussing this today. Essentially, she was uneasy with the thought that people were treating the death of a man almost like it's some sort of holiday, and honestly I agree with her. He had it coming, and I doubt they would've been able to capture him alive, but I dunno, maybe it's because I'm not an American.

[Natako]

Nah. I'm an American and I agree with you entirely, Warxe. My thoughts on the matter pretty much mirror Dragonium's.

[Dragonium]

Nobody's denying that the man was evil, but celebrating a man who has been all but forgotten for 3 years being shot dead along with members of his family and dumped in the sea should not be something to celebrate.

When did death - murder, even - become alright to feel good about as long as the person "deserved it"?

[SaiKar]

Dragonium - since the beginning of time, give or take. Don't kid yourself and certainly don't try to kid us. We have airplanes and ipods, but human nature hasn't changed a whole lot. Certainly not as much as we like to fool ourselves into thinking it has. We just guard our true selves closer these days.

Al Qaeda certainly didn't give a crap about the moral high ground when they sent all those civilians burning to their death. You have to make sure that people know that this sort of thing won't be tolerated. If it takes hunting a man down for ten years through awful hellhole countries to make that point, then that's what it takes.

[Archem]

An eye for an eye, as they say. Now, as for why so many people seem to think that this marks the end of an era, that has a lot to do with the way that the news here reports its stories. They keep it simple for the stupid, charge it politically, and try to focus all the blame onto a single person or group. Fox is the worst in this respect, and since it's also the biggest news source in the US, their misinformed reports make a world of a difference.

Still, the death of the figurehead of the USA's greatest enemy is pretty big news, given that we've been trying to bring him (as well as any other person involved in the September 11th attacks) to justice.

[Dragonium]

I agree with Archem 1000%. Most of the media coverage I've seen boils down to "the bad guy is dead, yippee". I have yet to see anything along the lines of "the bad guy might have friends who are now very angry". But then, it's whatever makes people happy. If this was played down as not really a big deal that doesn't bring a lot of closure for the people affected by September 11th who've been waiting for this day for a long time.

Sai, it's a difference of opinion, nothing more. I don't agree with the American government's idea of "fair retaliation", but that's just me. I'm not trying to sound like an apologist.

[SaiKar]

It's just that, I'm not sure if you noticed, but there haven't been a heck of a lot of encouraging things happening in the world period in the past decade. Terrorism. Recessions and outsourcing. And don't forget those long-term deaths like global warming and fossil fuels running out! We both know that Osama's death won't mean much in the overall scheme of things, but if this is what it takes to make people feel better and like they have a fighting chance, well, I'm willing to let that parade last as long as it can. Which won't be long at all, but that's okay. Take what we can get.

[Dragonium]

Well, on that we agree.

[DragonBlaze]

When someone dedicates their life to killing innocent people, I believe they deserve to die. But for the last day and a half, everyone has just been going crazy about this. While this is great news, terrorists are still around, and like always, they're going to keep trying to attack us.

[Valiere]

I'm getting sick of people acting all self-righteous and guilting those who celebrated his death.

This man is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

And about the whole burial at sea controversy....This is me rolling my eyes. No matter what they did with his body, there'd be trouble. Why fret for months over which country he'd be buried in and whether or not it would be used as a rallying point for terrorist sympathizers? They took the simple way out, and I don't blame them.

[Archem]

This is something I wanted to see posted. Thank you for not pussing out and taking full advantage of internet anonymity to really express your thoughts. It doesn't help that I agree with this sentiment, to an extent.

[WarxePB]

I'm getting sick of people acting all self-righteous and guilting those who celebrated his death.

This man is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

I think that today (and the next few days) should be spent remembering and mourning those thousands of people, rather than celebrating the death of one man.