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Originally Posted by Plan9
It is times like this that I'm embarassed to be a citizen of the US. Are we seriously having a party over this chickenshit-bullshit?
It doesn't matter that he's dead (or off being interrogated somewhere). He won his war. We cowered and changed our way of life.
All the "freedoms" we talk about defending we gave up to give ourselves the illusion of safety. We won't get that freedom back.
A decade of dead/crippled kids and a gajillion dollars that would have been better spent on education or bouncy castles... gone.
Isolationism: I'm for it.
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Pretty much same feeling for me.
Now we're going to get a bunch of "rah, rah, rah we final won!" To paraphrase Chris Rock- What'd we win? Go check your mailbox everyday for your OBL is dead prize. My guess is you won't find anything... ever.
I really don't care that he's dead but I'm not celebrating it either. We're still there and probably will be for years. He sucked us into committing endless resources to the region just like he did with the USSR back in the 80's. Something we ironically recognized as a way to bleed them dry and gave him help to do so. Now that we're being sucked dry no one seems to get we're getting fucked in the ass with no reach around.