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A lot of good news happened when bin Laden was apprehended, complaining about lack of perfection, I think will lead to less perfection, not more.
The US started to turn over a leaf in a better direction.
We didn’t coolly play with buttons on a computer screen risking the lives of bin Laden’s wives and children, yet no Navy Seals got hurt. When the Spanish police with percussion grenades thought they apprehended the masterminds of the Madrid backpack bombings, the terrorists blew themselves up killing a Spanish officer. As the Americans ran up the front causeway since the helicopter crashed they were terrorfied that they were going to have gasoline poured all over the place, yet they didn’t panicky fire at the kids.
Le’ts look at what the world might look like if the second helicopter didn’t crash. Instead of being disappointed that he lost his Rambo image in the end, his followers would be furious of what they would have seen as US lies to discredit a true martyr. A helicopter crash meant they couldn’t believe he was caught off guard.
The helicopter crash prevented the US from taking the wife and kids into custody. The rumors if not more of the US at least psychologically abusing helpless little children who just watched their father being shot apart into a bloody mess, would be an inspiration for terror.
Let all of us, those who cheered on ground zero, and those who believed they had nothing to cheer, get together and cheer that fortunate helicopter crash.
Meanwhile there has been a reconsideration of the war by Cliff Stearms, who was a superhawk now thinks the war a bankrupting waste, is suddenly of little interest by those complaining about the cheering, following bin Laden’s death. India is pushing peace proposals with is noticed mostly in India and Afghanistan, because Western peace people are discussing the cheering instead,
http://tribune.com.pk/story/167929/indian-pm-backs-afghan-peace-talks/
I personally tried to get excitement going,
http://www.readersupportednews.org/pm-section/22-22/6044-ding-dong-the-wicked-witch-is-dead
A little more good news and the US might not bankrupt itself after all, some more cheering might help.
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“The helicopter crash prevented the US from taking the wife and kids into custody. The rumors if not more of the US at least psychologically abusing helpless little children who just watched their father being shot apart into a bloody mess, would be an inspiration for terror”
It would seem that your standard for the way we treat these human being you have dehumanized by buying into the label “terrorist” is pretty low. To paraphrase the above, “Hey, at least we didn’t blow him apart in front of his kids.” What monsters we be: even here at FDL. I would assume in your mind (correct me if I am wrong) that only those who you consider human deserve a trial?
The title of you post kinda of reminds me of the old argument that dropping those two atomic bombs on Japan saved lives on both sides; or “missiles for peace!”
Wow, you and I have completely different ideas of what constitutes Good News and New Leaf Turnings.
Tha’s a what-if and you cna never prove it, but you cannot also disprove it. In my opinion, dropping those bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima did end the war much earlier and did save many lives on both sides that would have died in an invasion of Japan as well as prevented a bifurcation of Japan with the USSR ala Germany.
That is all minor, however. The real thing many do not consdier is dropping those bombs may have well saved civilization. Having real, hard evidence of seeing them used on a civilian population may have been the final difference from actually having leaders be too gung-ho to use them in the future, when they were much larger (the 100MT “Tsar” bomb) and more available. Keep in mind these were very small bombs compared to what was to come a few years later. Pandora’s box was already open, the bomb was developed and others were working on doing the same. Wihtout real expierence, the desire to use them would have been even greater.