Monday, May 2, 2011

Rapid Reaction: My Thoughts on Osama's Death


Yesterday marked one of the most important events of the 21st century and, undoubtedly, of the War on Terror. My eyes have been glued to virtually everything concerning Osama bin Laden's killing, including the operations made to take him down and the wild reaction across the country. There are a few things I'd like to touch upon. They are just my personal thoughts and also my reactions to things I've read, heard on the news, or have read/heard amongst my peers on Facebook/Twitter or at school.

Obama is straight killing it right now.
First off, he's fresh off a NATO bombing strike that killed the son of corrupt Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. So Barack was feeling pretty good heading into the weekend of the Correspondent's Dinner in Washington DC. If you haven't seen the video of Barack's speech at the dinner, make YouTube your friend and watch the recap. He just might be the funniest president of all time. His delivery, his timing, and just his overall swagger behind the mic. Just killed it. He absolutely tortured Trump. I was embarrassed for The Donald, actually.

And for the grand finale, Barack finds and kills Public Enemy No. 1?! Everyone go ahead and mail in your 2012 ballots. It's in the bag. Book it. Done.

"This won't be the end of the war."
I'm sick of hearing this. Who said it was? Barack didn't come out and say Well guys, that's it. We won the war and now everyone can come home. Because we didn't. We killed the guy responsible for the most destructive act of terror on American soil in the 235-year history of the country. How could anyone make this out to be anything but a victory?

It's not a victory of the entire war, but it's a small victory within the war.

"It doesn't matter that he's dead. There are more terrorists."
Well no shit. Here's a quick history factoid:

In July of 1944, a man by the name of Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate one of the world's most dangerous men of all time. He planted a bomb inside a briefcase and then had it placed inside a conference room. The attempted assassination failed and the man went on to torture and kill over 5,000 more people. This man was Adolf Hitler.

Think about it. Had von Stauffenberg succeeded, Hitler doesn't go on to kill thousands more and the world is a much better place much sooner.

You do realize 9/11 wasn't Osama's first involvement in American terrorism, right? What makes you think he was done? His death may have meant the prevention of a future (and possibly much more tragic) attack on American civilization.

So just because he's not the only terrorist, we should have just let him be? So let me get this straight. You think the police should just stop investigating and looking for murderers because there will always be another murderer out there. What kind of idiotic logic is that?

Sure, Osama wasn't the only terrorist. But he was the most dangerous and the most destructive.

Navy SEAL Team 6 is badass.
The men responsible for killing Osama just handled their business and have moved on. Anyone affiliated (or thought to be affiliated) with Team 6 claims "there is no Team 6". These are some of the world's most highly-trained soldiers and their humility is just the cherry on top. They've potentially got a $25 million reward coming their way and it's well deserved.

Osama was in a mansion.
Not much to say about this. Just wow. Like really bro? Way to be subtle.
I guess he figured he had done his time hiding in caves and deserts and hills and that it was just time to flaunt his shit in a mansion with one of his wives. Then she was used as a "human shield", according to CNN. Nice.

Obama has steel balls.
Imagine if this had failed? Not only could we have killed innocent civilian lives in Pakistan, Obama could have responsible for the deaths of the best soldiers in all the military. It took guts to call the shots on this operation and it took even more guts to take action. It could have gone terribly wrong for Barack. Luckily, it didn't.

Strange happenings.
A few eerie coincidences running along the death of bin Laden:

May 1, 1945: Adolf Hitler reported dead. 66 years to the day.

May 1, 1776: Adam Weishaupt founds the Illuminati in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. 235 years to the day.

May 1, 2003: President Bush makes his "Mission Accomplished" speech, announcing the end of American involvement in Iraq. Obviously, he was mistaken. 8 years to the day.

ESPN was broadcasting the Mets-Phillies game on Sunday Night Baseball. At the time the news was announced to the stadium, the game was in the 9th inning and the score was tied 1-1.   9-1-1

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