So Bin Laden is Dead, what now?

[The Bandit]

One wonders if it'll actually make a clod of difference. Yes, he is (was?) their leader; Do you think that his dying will really stop terrorism? Do you think conflict in the Middle East is just going to vanish overnight?

No, not really. This is a boost to morale and perhaps a minor disruption of their operations - I have no doubt that they have a line-up of second-in-commands who are just waiting to take his place. Then... what? We spend another decade trying to destroy his replacement?

You're right. We should just not try and ignore every terrorist attack.

You people confuse the hell out of me.

Nice straw man argument, as they clearly suggested that. Terrorism can't be fought like a normal war, but that doesn't mean you do nothing. Starting wars against full countries when its only select individuals from multiple different places (which were places like Saudi Arabia and the UAE mostly, not Afghanistan or Iraq).

And searching for their leader clearly isn't the greatest use of resources as it took almost 10 years and is would be foolish to think this will end everything. Counter-terrorism has to be done a lot differently than when dealing with criminals within communities, or wars between countries.

Then please explain the proper way to carry out this war, General.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

http://twitter.com/#!/BarackObama

The announcement is Obama's 1337-th Tweet

I see 1336 from your link.... but I don't see one addressing this.... OMG that is just a random thing that has no merit... r, uhm, I mean, it's just a tad crazy!?

OK I can't tell if you're serious or not... 1337 , like 'Leet' in gamerspeak! Just thought it was funny

In other news, Bin Laden was camping in the middle cave on Afghan with Cold Blooded Pro and UAV Jammer, and had put his location on his PSN account.

Oh no, I know exactly what you mean, my mind is a bit blow because of that link you gave. It says 1336 and the last tweet wasn't about Osama, so I would guess his next one will be about Osama, and it would be 1337. That's just.... I ... I can't even describe it.

BarackObama Barack Obama
About to address the nation. Watch live: http://wh.gov/live.
59 minutes ago


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Speaking on fiscal policy from George Washington University in D.C. Watch live at 1:35pm ET. http://wh.gov/live
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[jthm]

As if he ever mattered.

This. After the 9/11 attacks he was a symbol to the enemies of the United States. He effectively retired at that point, as any communications more hi tech than carrier pigeons would've given us his location. This really doesn't change anything other than boosting US morale and demoralizing fanatical islam.

 

[King Toasty]

I'm not shedding any tears at his death, but it's still the death of a human being. I will never say it's justice to kill someone for killing another.

Captcha: resaff operated. Dammit Resaff, he betrayed us!

 

[SwimmingRock]

Meh. It won't change anything. Nothing at all.

That's not true. They're going to have to come up with another reason to invade countries now. Maybe tell us about some new leaked reports of countries with different ideologies having "nukular" weapons. I can't wait to see what the next excuse for large-scale murder is going to be.

Well... Amurica just single handedly killed terrorism. That's what's up.

That's a joke, right? Aside from the fact that terrorism doesn't just happen A) in America B) by Osama bin Laden and his cronies, it would still be ridiculously optimistic to assume that killing one man will stop thousands of crazy people with rage issues from engaging in violence against people they consider unworthy of living.

 

[Impluse_101]

I bet he had his location on his PSN account.

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I'm sorry that was a beautiful post. This all the way.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

new DLC in either Black Ops or a whole new Call of Duty based around the attack of the Pakistani compound in which Osama was killed.

As for a source, I just saw a Presidential Address on my local news. As for a source...

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/osama-bin-laden-dead-050111

 

[bbad89]

Osama Bin Laden Dead; Gabe Newell found eating remains.

 

[Tdc2182]

Nice straw man argument, as they clearly suggested that. Terrorism can't be fought like a normal war, but that doesn't mean you do nothing. Starting wars against full countries when its only select individuals from multiple different places (which were places like Saudi Arabia and the UAE mostly, not Afghanistan or Iraq).

And searching for their leader clearly isn't the greatest use of resources as it took almost 10 years and is would be foolish to think this will end everything. Counter-terrorism has to be done a lot differently than when dealing with criminals within communities, or wars between countries.

That wasn't a crazy straw man, but you're right.

Terrorism's an idea. You can't kill that.

 

[The Bandit]

Meh. It won't change anything. Nothing at all.

That's not true. They're going to have to come up with another reason to invade countries now. Maybe tell us about some new leaked reports of countries with different ideologies having "nukular" weapons. I can't wait to see what the next excuse for large-scale murder is going to be.

Well... Amurica just single handedly killed terrorism. That's what's up.

That's a joke, right? Aside from the fact that terrorism doesn't just happen A) in America B) by Osama bin Laden and his cronies, it would still be ridiculously optimistic to assume that killing one man will stop thousands of crazy people with rage issues from engaging in violence against people they consider unworthy of living.

I'm so confused. You start off by arguing that America will need a new reason to "invade countries." This implies that their former reason (terrorism) is no longer valid. Then you go on to say that it would be foolish to assume terrorism is done.

Which is it?

Oh, and he was definitely joking. Seriously, it's not that hard to interpret facetiousness dude.

 

[Vigilantis]

Can we all just focus on going to Mars now?

Have you learned nothing from playing Doom???

On topic : Damn, Obama is probably going to get alot of undeserved credit for this >.<

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Hell yes he is! Been watching Fox with my mom for.a hour now. Literally 5 minutes before we got the news Geraldo said "what if its Bin Laden?" We doubted it. But its true!

You're watching FOX news? Do they have Osamas name misspelled on the bottom of the screen, or is this just a Chicago feed I'm seeing with the idiotic typo for the last 30 minutes?

It's on the website too.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/01/usama-bin-laden-dead-say-sources/

Hehe, "Usama".

Anyways, this is a great accomplishment, though my friend did point out a very good aspect to all of this (skip to 0:35 for the part in question):


They'll likely find someone else to step up and take his position, but at least we've set them back a great deal.

 

[fooddood3]

As if he ever mattered.

Yup.

He's been a figure head for the past 5 years. He has had barely anything to do with the Taliban. He's just been running away

I'm sure glad we have someone here who knows about the inner-workings of the Taliban.

 

[C95J]

yep, just finished watching Obama's speech.

Can't really believe it, it's been so long it seemed like it would never happen. But lets not forget that just because one man is dead, the war is over. Just because he is dead does not mean everything suddenly stops.

 

[Saulkar]

First, a celebratory glass of bourbon. Second, we find Waldo. Sneaky bastard.

Then put a bullet in his brains too.

 

[The Bandit]

Can we all just focus on going to Mars now?

Have you learned nothing from playing Doom???

On topic : Damn, Obama is probably going to get alot of undeserved credit for this >.<

Actually, he aut horized the attack on Osama

That sort of implies that Bush never authorized any attacks on Osama.

I mean, if Obama put much more effort into finding the guy than Bush, he deserves it. But it's really impossible to know.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

My last two facebook updates:

Status 1:

Can't bring himself to feel happy that an old man who has been literally hiding underground for the last 10 years is dead, even if that old man is Osama Bin Laden. First and foremost, this is a revenge killing; justice would have involved a trial, and preferably, life in solitary. Second, we've just created the martyr to end all martyrs. Third, the terror threat level was raised today for a reason. This is a historic moment, but I can't call it a happy one.

Status 2:

Did he seriously just say that people who believe in peace and human dignity should be rejoicing? No cognitive dissonance there.

End of statuses

As you can see from the posts, I'm not particularly happy about this. Yeah, he's dead; so what? The only thing it's going to change is how angry Al Qaeda is with us, and they were mad enough already. We need to learn the difference between justice and revenge; getting your enemy's head on a pike is too close to Osama's style.

 

[McNoobin]

So it took about 17-18 years (the US started looking for Osama after the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993) Really I don't care how long it took, he's dead, and I'm surprised.

 

[Tomo Stryker]

Osama Bin Laden Dead; Gabe Newell found eating remains.

What the hell is wrong with you?

 

[bluefire93]

Do we have a picture of a body released to the public yet? I need to see this.