Osama bin Laden: Dead

[Bella Fortuna]

Thanks. It just gets embarrassing when the simplistic, often moronic flag-wavers are shown as being representative of the whole.

+1

People don't want to hear educated, sophisticated opinions on breaking news. They want the flag waving moron to be, well, a moron.

Indeed. Truth and reality are too nuanced and multi-faceted to be suitably appropriate for ten seconds on the news.

[maiforpeace]

I'm more interested in how this will affect our policies about the three wars we are in, and Gitmo.

[Bella Fortuna]

Thanks. It just gets embarrassing when the simplistic, often moronic flag-wavers are shown as being representative of the whole.

It's the same everywhere. They always seem to find the most moronic human in town to answer a few questions in the street for the TV news.

I'm sure it is... but as we're so insular over here we rarely see that playing out in other parts of the world (another source of embarrassment in itself!)

[tattuchu]

Many Americans don't have a fucking clue what kind of shit our government has done. They accept blindly that our country is the greatest country in the world, perfect in every way. Anyone who is in any way critical of our govermnent's policies and actions is labeled as unpatriotic, or even treasonous. When in fact the opposite is true. Admiring what this country stands for, and expecting our government to hold to those high ideals is about as patriotic as you can get.

[Santa_Claus]

Killing Osama a week after 911, then (IMO) understandable.

10 years after? just looks weak and over-compensating. But have to keep the Mob fed or they turn on "you".

[charlou]

Many Americans don't have a fucking clue what kind of shit our government has done. They accept blindly that our country is the greatest country in the world, perfect in every way. Anyone who is in any way critical of our govermnent's policies and actions is labeled as unpatriotic, or even treasonous. When in fact the opposite is true. Admiring what this country stands for, and expecting our government to hold to those high ideals is about as patriotic as you can get.

Interesting perspective, and well put.

[Coito ergo sum]

I'm more interested in how this will affect our policies about the three wars we are in, and Gitmo.

Rationally, it should have little to no effect.

[Coito ergo sum]

Many Americans don't have a fucking clue what kind of shit our government has done. They accept blindly that our country is the greatest country in the world, perfect in every way. Anyone who is in any way critical of our govermnent's policies and actions is labeled as unpatriotic, or even treasonous. When in fact the opposite is true. Admiring what this country stands for, and expecting our government to hold to those high ideals is about as patriotic as you can get.

+100

[Santa_Claus]

I'm bored of Osama being dead.

Can't the Americans murder someone funnier? Like Donald Trump.

[Coito ergo sum]

I'm bored of Osama being dead.

Can't the Americans murder someone funnier? Like Donald Trump.

It's murder now? So, he wasn't a soldier?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Killing Osama a week after 911, then (IMO) understandable.

10 years after? just looks weak and over-compensating. But have to keep the Mob fed or they turn on "you".

I've seen people say stupid shit like that elsewhere. On those forums I asked if there was a statute of limitation on murder in the US?

[Rob]

On a lark, while transiting to school, I turned the radio on and skipped through each talk show host. I wanted to see how long it took the speaker to say something overtly bigoted or idiotic. One talk show host lasted 90 seconds before he said something about people like them(Muslims) wanting to destroy America. The rock show speakers are amusing though with the way they approach this subject, by the way.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[Twoflower]

The guy on CNN has slipped up and said Obama instead of Osama about 4 time each hour.

[Bella Fortuna]

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 81#p838281 DO keep up!