MrsMo
05-02-2011, 05:39 PM
Now we just have to pick off whoever steps into his shoes, then the one after that, ad infinitum.
I'm glad he's dead; but the people on the street the news interviewed didn't seem to realize that this doesn't end the war. I don't think their organization is going to fall to pieces, I don't think the religious fanatics are going to roll up their prayer rugs and start spouting about how we should all get along, and I don't think our Homeland Security group is going to grow a brain and stop hassling travelers. I also think the images of Americans dancing the the street because Bin Laden is dead will engender exactly the same feeling we had towards the Middle Easterners when the news showed pictures of them dancing in the street (supposedly) over the attacks in the US.
(BTW, I say "supposedly" because it turns out those videos were taken some time before the attacks and were of people celebrating things like weddings. I would love to find some rope and string up the "news reporters" who promoted that little misunderstanding.)
I'm glad he's dead; but the people on the street the news interviewed didn't seem to realize that this doesn't end the war. I don't think their organization is going to fall to pieces, I don't think the religious fanatics are going to roll up their prayer rugs and start spouting about how we should all get along, and I don't think our Homeland Security group is going to grow a brain and stop hassling travelers. I also think the images of Americans dancing the the street because Bin Laden is dead will engender exactly the same feeling we had towards the Middle Easterners when the news showed pictures of them dancing in the street (supposedly) over the attacks in the US.
(BTW, I say "supposedly" because it turns out those videos were taken some time before the attacks and were of people celebrating things like weddings. I would love to find some rope and string up the "news reporters" who promoted that little misunderstanding.)