Is Osama Bin Laden dead, and what are the implications?

So, anyone thinking any terrorist organizations are going to attack some time after this? I'm certainly worried it'll happen while everyone will be celebrating.

Probably no more than any other moment that is currently going on in this current time frame.

Not that quickly, but there will probably be a temporary surge in attacks before it goes back to being normal or hopefully less.

Yeah, they'll probably be a bit more fervent which will mean they might make mistakes, not to mention no doubt the HUGE raise in security since the operation.

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead

A great speech by President Obama too.

edited 1st May '11 9:37:33 PM by Carbonpillow

I doubt anybody has assets in place to respond to this, but I suppose somebody could twist events into making a case for somebody to get upset, but that'd probably be someone who would believe any lie.

"Let India Take Care of it"?

India is NOT going to wreck its economy by being made responsible for the US's mess with Pakistan. If the US wants to take care of it, they should take care of it. If they don't, don't expect India to. If New Delhi wanted to waste the effort on Pakistan, they would have done it already.

That said, I don't think war with a nuclear armed version of Yugoslavia is the best answer. Better answer would be to dismantle the farce that is Pakistan from within.

as a one, I think every politician considering running opposite obama for the presidency just shit themselves today,

You know how in Frisky Dingo, Killface's election winning policy was "But I cured global warming!".

Replace "global warming" with "Osama Bin Laden" and "cured" with "killed". Yeah, that's the gist of what I think will happen.

Also, ever since I started Photomedia classes (which unlike political sciences classes, teach you about how actual photographic images are used politically rather than just the politics on its own) I've been wary of celebrating the death of mass murderers, especially if their last moments are caught on film and used as propaganda. Because sure, being a dictator who killed innocent people is pretty bloody bad, but if you use that trump card to justify your own government's respective crimes against humanity, it's a bit of douchebaggery that makes you just as bad as them.

In addition, Buddhists worldwide should be worried, as Osama Bin Laden as per their belief system has officially entered the cycle of rebirth, making him somebody else's problem either two lifetimes later, or maybe a thousand years from now. The cycle of rebirth was not designed to handle the mass input of rebirths required by wars and other imperialistic/dictatorial problems.

Well our country's particular version of Buddhism goes like "if you commit too much sin in one life, you will suffer the next life for it... and then some".

I mean, I can picture Osama being reincarnated as an ant for a dozen few thousand incarnations, only to be squished to death... over and over again.

NGP: In that case, shouldn't Buddhists be worried whenever a murderer dies?

Exactly. Any murderer that goes through the cycle of rebirth becomes SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROBLEM centuries later.

Osamu Tezuka's Buddha manga laid this down loud and clear. The cycle of rebirth is intended to be a venue where bad souls gradually become better ones, but if a particularly heinous dude gets thrown in there, sure, he might be reborn with a crippled leg, but he's gotta work his way up to non-crippled leg by being obedient of the Eightfold Path. That's how the guys at the Wollongong Temple once explained it to us on a Studies of Religion excursion once too.

You all presume rebirth is linear along Time/Space. There is always the possibility he was reborn in the past as some other schmuck of evil.

That's a bizarre way of looking at reincarnation. More accurately, he becomes his own problem in his next life, in that his circumstances will be worse. There's no guarantee he'll be a problem for anyone else around him. And if he does then he gets punished more in his next next life. At no point does the "problem" get passed on to future generations. No Buddhist is ever worried when murderers die.

I'm not saying its absolutely impossible that his soul goes into the future, I'm just saying its not a given.

Finally! Finally! Little fuck got what he deserved! But what pisses me off is that human right organizations are already whining that bin Laden was"murdered" in cold blood. Seriously, they sit like little pussies while terrorists do what they want, but yell at those who actually do something. I hope Obama does not get criticized for "murdering Bin Laden in cold blood". I hate those human right activist pussies. Only thing they do is protecting evil. And that Palestinian government lead by Hamas called Bin Laden "holy warrior". Fuckers.