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Originally Posted by Genteel Death

If you only assasinate the head of state you're not
eliminating the state itself or its army. I don't find it surprising that some Americans view this death as some sort of victory because there's never really been much of a terrorist threat over there the way some other western countries experienced on a more regular basis, particularly in the 70s and the 80s. The mass hysteria that ensued with 9/11 was inevitable because of the amount of human lives lost and the ''one-offness'' nature of the episode. To many of those people chanting victory on the street today politics are easily digested when they are explained in a linear and uncomplicated way to follow.
More than pointing the finger at them in a judgemental way, I find it more worrying the fact that in the US there doesn't seem to be any other way, for the time being at least, to approach political protest with a more coherent theory/tactic which doesn't involve the sloganeering in bites of an ever so week left or the general extremism of thought that would only benefit a fascistic sci-fi scenario.

i grew up in a country plagued by terrorism and i have no illusions about this shit, but i still think the killing of trash bin laden was fucking awesome-- it's been 10 years overdue and there's a sense of relief that it's finally over for him. if he had only been found earlier there would have been much less of an excuse for the neocon cowboy expedition to iraq. motherfuckers probably let him go on purpose. the consolation prize is that this was done with obama as president and not with the idiot that fucked it all up in the first place.

yes, there is this easy way in here in 'merica of labeling your enemies "evil" which implies that you're "good" and can do no wrong, and it's naive and stupid and self-deluded and dangerous, but that doesn't change the fact that this turd needed to be shat for the past 10 years-- longer even, since clinton was out to get him before the kamikaze airliners.

anyway good fucking riddance and yeah, we opened a bottle and celebrated last night. i'm sure you know people who will do that the day berlusca croaks, even if they know his mafioso cronies will continue his corruption.