Both sides of this argument are nonsense. No one can say whether releasing the photos will or will not create more terrorists. How could anyone possibly know that with any shred of accuracy? Where are you all getting your intel from? You're predicting how Muslims will react emotionally as if they have a collective hive mind. Release the photos or don't release them. Who gives a fuck? He's dead and that's all that matters. And yes, we should celebrate. He was evil incarnate, responsible for the deaths of thousands and the world is a much better place without him. However I do enjoying the people on Facebook getting sanctimonious over the issue.
Well...yeah. Either you're crazy enough to strap a bomb to your chest to kill yourself in the name of Allah or you aren't. There's a huge leap from one to the other, and I don't see this "middle ground" between moderates and terrorists. Who are these supposed people, beyond some fuzzy demographic you just invented? By the way, according to your logic, in the aftermath of Timothy McVeigh's death photos being revealed, there should have been a new wave of redneck terrorists, right? And exactly how dumb are you arguing Muslims are? Stupid enough to where seeing a vile dead terrorist who happens to share the same religion as them turns them into killers? Between what "two viewpoints"? You're so eager to insult me you can't even come up with a coherent argument. The only "viewpoint" you mentioned above were the ones who already hate the US and want to harm it, and even you're not quite dumb enough to think that a photo will change anything for them.
Honestly, Im starting to think the picture situation is becoming more like the whole South Park/Muhammed incident. We know that they can be outraged but should we really kowtow to people because we are afraid of what they might do? Particularly if they aren't decent human beings themselves? We know that we aren't trying to intentionally hurt peoples feelings and we shouldn't run our lives hoping not to upset people. It just seems like the pussified reaction that is an outgrowth of the insanely PC/everybody wins/no ones a loser/don't hurt anybody's feelings culture we've developed.
Actually his argument is perfectly coherent, provided you don't have your head up your ass. Are neither of you the least bit appalled at yourselves that you have taken the entirety of the world's population of Muslims (roughly 1.5 billion people) and put every one of those people and pigeonholed them into 1) terrorist or 2) not terrorist?
Well, it's official - they released the photo proving Bin Laden's death so now maybe we can all move on. Beware: NSFW Just thought I'd try to lighten things up a bit on here.
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I reckon it has little to do with being PC on the subject. Instead, it has everything to do with being the better man, or in this case, country. I'm sure continued safety is an issue, but why shouldn't it be?
The best part is that they rant about how we will be slain, our blood will be mixed with our tears, etc, and then they politely request that we treat the body with respect.
Actually, I think it's conceding to the idiots when we do things like release images of a dead guy because a bunch of screaming idiots insist on "proof" - just like I thought it was conceding to the idiots when Obama released his birth certificate. Do what's reasonable and decent (in this case, not trotting out images of war victims like it's some kind of prize), and fuck the morons who want to cry that there's a government conspiracy.
Hell, it's got to be fun just poking them with a stick by NOT releasing the pic, and watching them run around like the sky is falling.
Abso-fucking-lutely. The birthers were much funnier when no birth certificate was released. Sure, they can claim it's fake now, but I thought the implication that it didn't exist was much better.
Great, now our government has Al-Qaeda in on it too. There's just no end to these treacherous conspiracies.
I re-posted that on a gaming forum that I frequent because their entire thread about Osama being dead was one long discussion involving various conspiracy theories. Of course, that article was no proof because the government controls the media. This place is a nice white to counter out the awful, awful black that is the intelligence of that gamer community.
There have been reports that there was a SPECOPS dog on scene when they "found" Bin Laden. This has resulted in a few cool-as-hell spin-off pieces about "War Dogs". Here's a pretty interesting photo gallery: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/05/04/war_dog?page=0,0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... g?page=0,0</a> "Sit Ubu sit" just doesn't seem to cut it any more.
I think it's extra hilarious to have a picture of a dog jumping out of an airplane right above your sig quote about stressed animals. Don't know if it was on purpose, but kudos.
The funny part is I doubt for a second that those dogs are stressed about it. I'd wager that they love every fucking second of doing that crazy shit.