Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 We've been super stacking the killstreaks long enough. I wonder if they ever will identify the soldier that made the kill shot. Figure he'd have competing price on his head if they did. Im guessing Bin Laden died like the Hussien brothers, RGPs and bullets a plenty, might not have been one guy.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 Serious question: I don't want to start some big thing and see anyone get pissed off, but does this really change things going forward? He's easily replaceable; that's how those organizations work. Yes, let's take solace in knowing that the guy is no more, but there's always been someone in line right behind him, and someone else behind that guy, etc. They have more structure to them than the rest of the world is willing to acknowledge. For that reason, I don't feel much cause for celebration. It'd be like killing a hornet I saw in my garage, but leaving the nest in the corner intact. [/$0.02]
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 I don't think it will either. An iconic victory, but not a tactical one as some smart guy on Al Jazeera put it.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 This is a hornet we have spent many lives, a shit ton of money, and lots of time to swat. He had lots of people doing stuff for him, but he was still calling the shots so fuck him. Yeah there's a pretty good sized nest left but we just put the hammer down on the king hornet.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 It's a national morale booster. None of us has anywhere near the level of knowledge necessary to determine how this effects the enemy, but domestically, it's huge. Politically, it is massive. With stuff like this, it's never about what it actually solves. It's all about how it makes people feel.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 WOOT! I can't fucking believe this. I was sitting in my H.S. homeroom in Chicago watching the news of 9/11. When you're 15, and you're watching something on TV, you can't believe it. It doesn't sink in for awhile. There are no words for this. The Navy Seals fuckers should never have to pay for a goddamn thing the rest of their lives. The only losers here are the poor Marines, they're not going to be able to talk their shit for the longest time. And in terms of the Al Q organization, apparently Osama bin Laden was the end all be all. He was the hero that fought the Russians and everything did run off him. Now that he's gone, they may still be around, but they aren't nearly going to be as organized. Think Apple without Steve Jobs.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 The boys at the airforce base (Offutt) close to me must be celebrating tonight. Heard a huge explosion about 10 min before Obama went on. Either that or someone had some m-80's laying around.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 He isn't easily replaceable for international Al Queso Fresco operations. He was the face of the operation as an international organization. The operations he directed were on foreign soil against foreign targets. USS Cole, the Embassy Bombings, 9-11, probably the Bali bombings and so on. He was waging war on the West. The "Al Queada" operations since our invasion of Iraq have not been directed by him. They are "Red Dawn 'wolverine'" missions carried out by local branches of what is termed "al Quaida" but is nothing more than people who consider themselves Muslim freedom fighters that al Quiada has provided some funding to. They are guerrillas who are not a part of the international operations. Just terrorists who have been lumped together. Osama is the face of their international operations, and in the 10 years there has been nothing from the real international arm of al Quaidea as Osama has been on the run. He hasn't had the ability to provide the funding for a mission, nor the ability to get the manpower to organize a mission. Killing him is just beating the dead horse that was an international terrorist group, and turning it into dog food and elmers. What we have to worry about now is the chance that there are "post Osama death suicide sleeper cells" who may pull shit. Also, despite my bravado, and happiness at this instance, the crowd outside of the White House bothers me.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 I found it disconcerting as well. Reminds me of all the footage of people celebrating the death of American soldiers.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 It's the singing of "na na na na, hey hey, goodbye" that makes it a caricature. Stay classy DC
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 It reminds me of all the dipshits who lined the streets after 9/11 (apparently none of them had jobs), waving American flags and cheering on the dump trucks full of debris coming from ground zero.
Re: Draft? Why Yes, I'd Love One! WDT 4/29/11 On one hand, a decade-long, 20k plus civilian death, 300 billion dollar war to get Osama Bin Laden kind of feels like hunting a wasp with a blowtorch. On the other hand, we got that fucking wasp. (this is my current fbook status)