I am against the death penalty, and I refuse to use slug and snail bait in my yard. Nor will I salt slugs.
I am thankful (not rejoicing, but thankful) that bin Laden is dead. I am worried that without his banner to flock to, we will end up with a splintered Al Qaida - 50 groups of people who can't organize their way out of a paper bag.
The most dangerous person with a nail gun is the one who doesn't know how to use one. On that principle, the most dangerous terrorists are the ones who know just enough to start something but nothing about follow-through - they are dangerous because they act in chaotic manners and are often quite spontaneous, rather than being able to ferret out what might be coming at us, I think we may be facing numerous groups of chaos driven destructive abilities.
I do not rejoice in anyone's death. I am heartily glad that this man is not around anymore to cause more massive destruction to lives. I am very glad this was a hit-grab-run operation and not a large-scale bombing: in a large scale bombing, there wouldn't be enough bits of him left to convince people that he was dead (though many are doubting already, primarily because it happened on Obama's watch methinks). Given the location of the compound, it also meant there was very very little collateral damage (like, oh, say, his neighbors houses are still standing - while Pakistan may tolerate us running into his house and taking him out? I doubt they'd tolerate us blowing up his neighborhood).
It is a very good thing that he is no longer around, though I still can't rejoice in his death. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. ;)
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Date: 2011-05-05 12:41 pm (UTC)I am thankful (not rejoicing, but thankful) that bin Laden is dead. I am worried that without his banner to flock to, we will end up with a splintered Al Qaida - 50 groups of people who can't organize their way out of a paper bag.
The most dangerous person with a nail gun is the one who doesn't know how to use one. On that principle, the most dangerous terrorists are the ones who know just enough to start something but nothing about follow-through - they are dangerous because they act in chaotic manners and are often quite spontaneous, rather than being able to ferret out what might be coming at us, I think we may be facing numerous groups of chaos driven destructive abilities.
I do not rejoice in anyone's death. I am heartily glad that this man is not around anymore to cause more massive destruction to lives. I am very glad this was a hit-grab-run operation and not a large-scale bombing: in a large scale bombing, there wouldn't be enough bits of him left to convince people that he was dead (though many are doubting already, primarily because it happened on Obama's watch methinks). Given the location of the compound, it also meant there was very very little collateral damage (like, oh, say, his neighbors houses are still standing - while Pakistan may tolerate us running into his house and taking him out? I doubt they'd tolerate us blowing up his neighborhood).
It is a very good thing that he is no longer around, though I still can't rejoice in his death. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. ;)