Osama bin Laden killed (was: They got him.)

Listening to radio, it said he was killed, unarmed, and people were complaining. I don't understand what is wrong with this. Are they saying they should've risked taking him into custody?
 
Tim Major said:
Listening to radio, it said he was killed, unarmed, and people were complaining. I don't understand what is wrong with this. Are they saying they should've risked taking him into custody?
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That's what makes the difference between terrorist's behaviour and respect of human rights.
 
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Tim Major said:
Why does Osama bin Laden deserve respect? Did he respect the people in the 9/11 attack? They weren't armed. They hadn't done anything wrong.
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He does respect people. We do. At least I do. And those who don't are just bunch of *******s like he is. At another scale, for sure, but still.

We have no right to judge him as a bad guy if we do the same. This is mostly what makes the difference between justice and revenge.

Or more simple :
* He doesn't respect people and kill them -> he is a terrorist.
* You doesn't respect people and kill them -> you are a terrorist.
 
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It was only for the sake of revenge that US soldiers killed him, it will effect the world, but I don't know.
 
deadalnix said:
You does respect people and kill them -> you are a terrorist.
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I think you mean "don't respect" or "disrespect", but anyway, your definition of terrorist goes against how most people would define it. Terrorism isn't about whether you give someone a trial of not. Just by looking at the name, you can see that it's about doing violent acts intended to create fear/terror in a group of people (to intimidate them). Defining all wartime deaths as terrorism is absolutely ridiculous. It's such a charged term that, when you use it like this, I feel like I am talking to a bigot who will freely condemn anyone he doesn't like.

And if you're wondering, the US team who was sent to Osama's compound did actually take pains to give the guy a proper Muslim burial. I think the intent was to show that, even though we needed to take Osama out, we were not trying to attack the Muslim community, but rather trying to help it. I'd say that paying attention to burial ceremony does actually imply some respect; giving an enemy the opportunity to attack you or escape does not (what it DOES imply is ignorance of the dangers of combat).
 
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Sometimes people say the CIA funded al qaeda.

(This is off-topic.)
 
I love how Hondurans ignore all the problems that are ****ing up our country and instead are more interested on reading any news about Osama.
 
This will be my last post on this subject (and hopefully the last post in this thread for everyone). I just realized that I have contradicted an important idea (one which I firmly believe to be true). This idea being that we are now giving Osama what he wanted all along, and that is attention. In death, he has more than likely had his infamous deeds more widely known to the public than they have been in years. Which is what he obviously wanted when plotting his attacks. It is here that you must decide for yourself whether or not you want to give him what he wanted.
I would ask to have this thread closed but I obviously don't have that authority. And as I said, it is up to you to choose whether or not you will post on this topic. Make the decision you find to be the best.
 
Hershey said:
Sometimes people say the CIA funded al qaeda.
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That's not true. However, there is some debate over whether or not the CIA trained a group called the Afghan Arabs, of which Osama bin Laden was part, back in 1979. Remember this is during the Cold War, and the Soviet Union was invading Afghanistan, so it was to our advantage to train the natives to fight against the Soviets. There is no debate that training and funding was given to the Afghan mujahideen to fight the soviets, but they deny training the Afghan Arabs. The project was scrapped and funding ceased shortly afterwards, LONG before the formation of Al Qaeda. The only arguable instance of the CIA training bin Laden refers to what happened in 1979.
 
@ZamHalen: Everyone had totally forgotten about Osama bin Laden. I'm sure exactly what he wanted was for you to make a thread about his death on speedsolving. You've gone and given him everything he ever wanted. You should be ashamed of yourself.
 
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