Osama is dead

**Maha** · 2nd May 2011, 18:00

Originally Posted by CAMSec

...wow...dont think it will make the problem go away though...

Yip, someone will take his place, better the devil you know.

**Mental Trousers** · 2nd May 2011, 18:08

Does anyone know how much the US spent to get this one kill?? I mean the total since September 11th. That has to be the most expense contract kill ever.

**Katman** · 2nd May 2011, 18:08

Originally Posted by Maha

Yip, someone will take his place, better the devil you know.

Exactly. His place will be filled quickly. Anyone who thinks this has solved anything is deluding themselves.

If anything, things are just gunna hot up.

**Katman** · 2nd May 2011, 18:14

It's ludicrous to think that someone of Bin Laden's intellect and standing would not have groomed someone to immediately take his place - knowing that he was the world's most wanted man.

**mashman** · 2nd May 2011, 18:18

Wonder if they'll televise Al Qaeda Idol odl ady hoo

**ellipsis** · 2nd May 2011, 18:21

...there are a thousand bin ladens out there...his unlimited wealth and charisma is easily duplicated...its called politics and the quest for power...the nutters who are incensced by his demise are already generating the next one...he may be in Bradford or Leeds, right now...

**far queue** · 2nd May 2011, 18:25

Originally Posted by jazfender

Goff: "I have absolutely zero tolerance for terrorists who kill innocent people in pursuit of their ideological goals."

thanks for the reassurance, asshole. Seriously, he has to say that?

I heard this on the radio and thought of all the innocents the yanks have wiped out since 9/11 as "collateral damage" in pursuit of their ideological goals, and oil, in Iraq.

Also, watching the crowds of people in the US cheering and yahooing, they look very much like crowds in muslim parts of the world behaving the same way at the demise of US forces. The only thing missing is the AK47's being fired into the air, although I haven't seen footage from the redneck states where they're probably doing just that with M16's.

Just a couple of observations.

**far queue** · 2nd May 2011, 18:27

Originally Posted by CAMSec

...there are a thousand bin ladens out there...his unlimited wealth and charisma is easily duplicated...its called politics and the quest for power...the nutters who are incensced by his demise are already generating the next one...he may be in Bradford or Leeds, right now...

I think I see your code

**pzkpfw** · 2nd May 2011, 18:42

Of course it won't suddenly stop the bastards.

BUT if enough of the guys at the top (who send the 12 year old boys to be the suicide bombers) get offed, then eventually there might be no one left who wants to be the guy at the top.

AND as long as they keep making the "best" or "smartest" or "most popular" guys the leaders, and the leaders keep geeting hit (hopefully more often than we've just seen) then they may eventually run out of the "best" or "smartest" or "most popular" guys.

In any case, isolationism and non-intervention isn't going to help.

**mashman** · 2nd May 2011, 18:50

perhaps Osama Bin Lady wasn't the leader to start with. Just the guy who put his neck on the line. If I was leading that sort of "resistance" I wouldn't wanna appear on TV for that very reason

**Crasherfromwayback** · 2nd May 2011, 18:52

Originally Posted by Katman

It's ludicrous to think that someone of Bin Laden's intellect and standing would not have groomed someone to immediately take his place - knowing that he was the world's most wanted man.

Doesn't mean it's not a good thing the cunt's dead.

**Katman** · 2nd May 2011, 18:58

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback

Doesn't mean it's not a good thing the cunt's dead.

I don't disagree.

I'm just saying - hang on to your hats.

**Elysium** · 2nd May 2011, 18:59

Originally Posted by Katman

It's ludicrous to think that someone of Bin Laden's intellect and standing would not have groomed someone to immediately take his place - knowing that he was the world's most wanted man.

I'm pretty sure the CIA is thinking the same thing, just waiting for the next line to announce himself.

**Genestho** · 2nd May 2011, 19:06

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

Of course it won't suddenly stop the bastards.

BUT if enough of the guys at the top (who send the 12 year old boys to be the suicide bombers) get offed, then eventually there might be no one left who wants to be the guy at the top.

AND as long as they keep making the "best" or "smartest" or "most popular" guys the leaders, and the leaders keep geeting hit (hopefully more often than we've just seen) then they may eventually run out of the "best" or "smartest" or "most popular" guys.

In any case, isolationism and non-intervention isn't going to help.

That's not how it works in their world though. They don't have to be the best or the smartest, they just have to be suicidal..
There are rewards to be had in Jihad - Holy War, with Allah and in their heaven.

Martyrdom inspires others to continue the work, that is why this is a "war" that could never be won as we - the west, know it.