Osama bin Laden killed

[Blademaster]

As a former New Yorker, I'd appreciate not being lumped in with the barbarians dancing in the streets over bin Laden's death the same way Al-Qaeda supporters were partying over the deaths of 3,000 people in the Towers. I'd like to believe that the self-proclaimed 'greatest country in the world' is more civilized than a bunch of mud hut-dwelling radical fundamentalists still living in the Dark Ages.

[Roy Karrde]

As a former New Yorker, I'd appreciate not being lumped in with the barbarians dancing in the streets over bin Laden's death the same way Al-Qaeda supporters were partying over the deaths of 3,000 people in the Towers. I'd like to believe that the self-proclaimed 'greatest country in the world' is more civilized than a bunch of mud hut-dwelling radical fundamentalists still living in the Dark Ages.

So you believe that celebrating the death of a ruthless murderer is the same as celebrating the deaths of 3,000 innocent civilians.

Man you would have been such a buzz kill on VJ and VE day.

[Master of Paradox]

Personally, I'm finding it impossible to care. Obama is just using this as yet another way to prop up his crumbling reputation. It's like how the troop withdrawal will conveniently be complete JUST IN TIME for the 2012 elections.

(For the record, I am not a conspiracy theorist. I do not believe the government had Bin Laden's corpse on ice to be wheeled out when needed. I sure as hell am not a Birther.)

[Dark Sage]

Unbelievable. I'm one of Obama's biggest supporters here, and the person who's agreeing with me most is the biggest Conservative on the TPM!

Did the Allies try to take Hitler alive? No. That's the way it goes sometimes for mass-murderers. Bin Laden was not simply a criminal, and it wasn't the NYPD's job to bring him in. He was a terrorist who had declared war on the United States. He didn't even have any regard for the Geneva Convention and NO regard for the Rules of Engagement; his organization used cowardly tactics like suicide bombings that frequently targeted civilians. He claimed he was fighting a Jihad, and yet many of his victims were Muslims.

This was war. In a war, you can't always take the enemy general alive, or even attempt to do so. With this kind of enemy, you have to do what is necessary to make sure that he's stopped.