Saw this as a post this morning on FB: Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice. ~Proverbs 24:17

 

Something to think about....

 

"An eye for an eye"....whereabouts unknown....

I know you are simply fanning the flame, but he set in motion the killing of innocent civilians in our country, and then subsuquently some innocents in the Middle East. For that, yes I cheer our killing him. He is a hypocrite and murderer and hopefully spends eternity in hell. The difference is those that perished on 09/11 did nothing to provoke his terrorists acts. I have not been a supporter of our current President, but this is by far the best thing he has accomplished since being in office, and I give him high marks for getting this done.

 

No fan flaming. I said in my first post that I can rationalize the difference. I was just curious how others did.

No fan flaming. I said in my first post that I can rationalize the difference. I was just curious how others did.

 

I certainly can rationalize the difference however, I also know that other civilizations are less than...well...civil.

You need only type in "V-E Day" or "V-J Day" into Google Images to see how long standing this is in the United States. Granted, yesterday & today's celebrations may not be a celebration of world peace in the same sense as it was in 1945, but I think the fact that Osama Bin Laden is no longer roaming freely and directing his terrorist minions is certainly something worth being very happy about.

 

I can only assume that Bin Laden's death (and the celebration of it - no matter how justifiable it was or wasn't) will bring on some retaliatory attacks, but I think that is inherent to rooting out ridding the world of the evils of religious terrorism.

 

Another thought on V-J Day: The UK celebrated it on August 15, 1945, and the US celebrated it on September 2, 1945...not very long at all after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. The dead in Hiroshima is estimated between 90,000 and 166,000 and the dead in Nagasaki is put between 60,000 and 80,000. That killing was completely indiscriminate - there were civilians women and children included in those dead. That's a far cry away from the small handful who died while resisting during the raid on Bin Laden's compound. People across the world celebrated. How many posters and prints of the famous "V-J Day in Times Square" adorn the walls of romantic high school and college girls?

People are happy because a man who has brought so much disarray around the world and in our country was brought to justice. Half of the political debates we have have to deal with issues this man has brought upon us and in many ways it has divided us. Americans can rejoice and have the right to considering what we all have had to go through to make us safer and the world.

I believe the cheering is for the sense of justice. I also believe the cheering would be just as loud if not louder had he been captured. While I am much too young to remember, I am sure the death of Adolf Hitler recieved a similar sentiment over 60 years ago.

 

While I am not "cheering" the death of Bin Laden, I defintely cheer the end of his reign of terror. It definitely has a feeling of closure and justice to it.

How do you rationalize our reaction as being different from those we criticized after 9.11?

 

9-11 killed thousand of innocents. Those cheering then were cheering the deaths of innocents. Last night that murder got his. Huge difference in my mind.

You need only type in "V-E Day" or "V-J Day" into Google Images to see how long standing this is in the United States. Granted, yesterday & today's celebrations may not be a celebration of world peace in the same sense as it was in 1945, but I think the fact that Osama Bin Laden is no longer roaming freely and directing his terrorist minions is certainly something worth being very happy about.

 

I can only assume that Bin Laden's death (and the celebration of it - no matter how justifiable it was or wasn't) will bring on some retaliatory attacks, but I think that is inherent to rooting out ridding the world of the evils of religious terrorism.

 

Another thought on V-J Day: The UK celebrated it on August 15, 1945, and the US celebrated it on September 2, 1945...not very long at all after Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. The dead in Hiroshima is estimated between 90,000 and 166,000 and the dead in Nagasaki is put between 60,000 and 80,000. That killing was completely indiscriminate - there were civilians women and children included in those dead. That's a far cry away from the small handful who died while resisting during the raid on Bin Laden's compound. People across the world celebrated. How many posters and prints of the famous "V-J Day in Times Square" adorn the walls of romantic high school and college girls?

 

Exactly where I going with this.:thumb:

9-11 killed thousand of innocents. Those cheering then were cheering the deaths of innocents. Last night that murder got his. Huge difference in my mind.

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Saw this as a post this morning on FB: Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when he stumbles, do not let your heart rejoice. ~Proverbs 24:17

 

Something to think about....

 

This.

 

I believe we did the right thing. But I cannot bring myself to the point of elation or cheer. We did what needed to be done. Now we move on.

We as a country has never experienced anything like 9/11 before. How are people supposed to react? This isn't an 'act like you have been there before' moment by any stretch of the imagination. I wasn't out cheering but I would have loved to have been in Philadelphia at the Philly game chanting 'USA' with everyone else. I certainly don't begrudge anyone for any cheering during this emotional time for our country. This retribution has been a long time coming and it was definitely an unexpected surprise for the world. Unexpected surprises have been known to bring out cheers.

This.

 

I believe we did the right thing. But I cannot bring myself to the point of elation or cheer. We did what needed to be done. Now we move on.

 

That's how I look at it as well. I've never been a USA! USA! chest-thumping type, but I'm extraordinarily happy with the result. I can certainly understand how some are moved to cheer.

 

If I'm tempted to cheer; it's due to the fact that a maniac is out of the picture and that hopefully as a result, many innocent lives will be saved. That I can cheer.

I don't view Osama or his kind as humans on the same level as most of the population. Any one who can plan, carry out, and rejoice what happened 9/11 or can cut another person's head off while they are alive and screaming is at the bottom of the evolutionary chart in my mind. I will rejoice in Osama's death the same as I will in the destruction of any other disease.

Maybe not cheering for the death, but people are cheering for justice?

Bingo ...

 

Trust me, none of us lost any sleep over it. Osama bin Laden put his own life in danger when he masterminded the 9/11 plot.

Am I happy he can't hurt anyone anymore? Yeah. But I just can't get on board cheering someone's death, no matter who it is. Just a personal preference. I wouldn't condemn anyone who did. Killing him doesn't really make me feel patriotic, either.