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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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Well said.
Also terrorism now sadly is like a Lernaean Hydra once you cutoff a head other heads will appear. This is sadly the new reality, all you need to do is look at NYC now with the terror alert, the super slowdown now at airports after Osama was killed. The message that we will get you if you attack us while is heard now is not as strong since it took almost 10 years.
I applaud the military and intelligence services for their hard work and accomplishment, I just do not feel this will change anything. It is not a huge victory where people should be out celebrating. The closest to a celebration in my mind is the closure to some 9-11 families.
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Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
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