At last
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And gas prices continue to soar.
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I saw the topic title and thought Dominos had brought back the Texmex pizza…
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I at first thought he was going to say tomorrow is the anniversary of Voldemort's defeat…
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Fox News coverage certainly didnt help clear up what had happened…
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... istan.html This gives a more details on what happened
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Don't much care what happened. They'll find another false prophet to replace him. One face is as good as another to extremists ^.^
I wonder if he foresaw this… >.>
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I can see why his death would be a landmark event, but I think it's really creepy to see so many people celebrating the death of somebody.
Not that I sympathize with him, he -did- orchestrate the death of 3000~ people.
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Just wait till you see my funeral. You'll never see so many happy faces again! XD
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I can see why his death would be a landmark event, but I think it's really creepy to see so many people celebrating the death of somebody.
Not that I sympathize with him, he -did- orchestrate the death of 3000~ people.
Yes and all the bombs it took to finally nab him only managed to hit brick and mortar did it?
I wonder who gave his lot all their weaponry in the first place.
Oh wait.
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Well, a large portion of it is Russian…So I don't get what point you're trying to drive at Broken.
Maybe it would help to clarify ^.^
((On a side note: it is rumored that Osama was also trained by Russia))
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And here I thought it was Ze Germans.
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This is awesome news for all the world. Because of several reasons. Seriously.
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@Broken:
I can see why his death would be a landmark event, but I think it's really creepy to see so many people celebrating the death of somebody.
Not that I sympathize with him, he -did- orchestrate the death of 3000~ people.
Yes and all the bombs it took to finally nab him only managed to hit brick and mortar did it?
I wonder who gave his lot all their weaponry in the first place.
Oh wait.I imagine the news in different parts of the world tell different stories.
While I can appreciate that alot of you are thrilled about what has happened. In Denmark, it is a Breaking News Story as well.
That said, while this is the Off Topic section of the Forum, politics do not belong in CoA. We have players from all over the world, and likely from many different faiths and cultures.
The reason such can exist, is because we come together to share something we all love, which is the act of roleplaying, and playing games in General. And such can only function, if we continue to keep Real Life Politics from corrupting our little Neverland.
That is the only way we can keep this from turning into a discussion that simply does not belong here.
-Olouth
PS. Did I just write something serious… Yuck.
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Can hardly see anyone being upset that a mass murderer who's twisted the image of a major religion for the worse…
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Not that I sympathize with him, he -did- orchestrate the death of 3000~ people.
Doubt he 'orchestrated' anything. He was a figurehead, at most he rubber stamped a plan that a bunch of guys (most of which are already dead) came up with.
Well, a large portion of it is Russian…So I don't get what point you're trying to drive at Broken.
Maybe it would help to clarify ^.^
((On a side note: it is rumored that Osama was also trained by Russia))
While I dont think this is the place to band around theories, I doubt the Russians would have trained him since it was them he was fighting in his years as part of the afghan mujahideen, back when they were refered to as 'freedom fighters' and were enjoying the cash and training we provided them through Operation Cyclone. But im not some renowned military or political historian so this is just conjecture.
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Bah. If you ask me the dude died years ago in some unknown Afghan cave, buried and never found. This is just a PR story. You don't wonder why there is just a blurry mangled photo and the body was 'buried' at sea?
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@O'louth:
…stuff...
I doubt there's anyone playing on CoA - Christian, Muslim, Hindu, atheist, or agnostic - who can look at bin Laden as anything other than a terrible human being. There will be some who take this as an opportunity to criticize the US, and there's some merit in that criticism given the history of our proxy wars. We obviously armed and supported him decades ago.
Even with the merit I have to take any criticism on the internet with a grain of salt because those are the same people who invariably use any opportunity to criticize the US. Everything is an opportunity from those folks- fighting the Soviets in the 70s and 80s (we all know how friendly they were and how we should have just let it be), playing American-style football instead of rugby, inventing McDonald's (which is purely an American phenomenon), providing 22% of the UN's regular budget, fighting Iraq in the 90s and 00s (we all know how friendly they were and how we should have just let it be), being racist, and using measurement systems based on imperial units. It usually happens in IRC instead of the forums, but whatever. I think most of us are used to it by now.
Anyway, bin Laden was a terrible person and the world is better off with him gone. With any luck his organization as it is will not be able to operate coherently and will, over the next ten years, fade into nothing. Their structure makes it unlikely (if not impossible) that he had anything to do with the day to day operations, but he was an important figurehead and his loss will be a huge blow to morale. Of course, the chaos means more danger in the short-term, and there's no guarantee that another person with his charisma won't step up and take his place immediately. I wonder how long it will take his successor to find apologists in the west, and if their apologia will be substantive or purely rhetorical anti-Americanism.
And yeah- the "burial at sea" is crap. I can understand the reasoning for it, but bonus corpus habere, damn it. He's setting himself up for accusations of a pre-election PR stunt.
Forgive my grade school Latin.
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Well, throwing him into the sea makes the whole story just damn hard to believe. It's no longer great news for me.
On criticism on the US, I don't think the things you have listed have anything to do with the US's reputation. It's rather the attitude your leaders handle international things. The way they do everything to force their interests on other nations. I know it's their job, and I also know that any other superpowers in history had done it and will do it the same way. You know, it's kind of disappointing for a nation to realize that the land of dreams where everyone longed to live for forty years while the borders was closed supports the successors of the communist party if not openly but -very- clearly against any other political forces. And successor here is merely a technical term, as it is another party now, but the leaders are the same as the censors of the past.
It was just a bitter example of our mid-europian reality.It is rather about your leaders following the short term interests of yours not the mid-term ones.
Like huge companies outsourcing not only production but research as well to China.Sadly enough it is a tendency in the world to choose short term interests over long term ones.