RE: Osama sleeping with the fishes (R-rated)

[retiredmaj]

I wasn't going to write a separate entry on bin Laden's send off to paradise via the SEALs.  (Actually, I'm thinking he'll have a different destination, but I don't have a say.)

But what the hell, standing post on Sepember 11, 2001, watching the second jet liner smack into the South Tower in real time, is burned forever in my memory.

I'll speak my

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re your * and **

[bytchearse]

* I too am happier it was like this. At the absolute least, it will shut up the "Americans are cowards" crowd for a bit. We know the mettle of our SF, and they can be proud of this op.

** It is simply not possible in a decent world to classify meat sacks like those as "human" and I refuse to claim any species kinship.

[larmer]

"3 Pakistan: Got nothing nice to say about them. Personally, I'd like to issue them all hyperbaric weapons, and let them have at it. Watching the ripple across their country would be cool."

Right....Perhaps you forget that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Do you really want them to be a failed state? (rhetorical question) Then your comment in the last paragraph will come true.

[retiredmaj]

Not very many, happily. Though you do bring up a long-running concern. It's a coin-toss on whether any terrorist organization would actually use a device like that. The shit-storm they would bring on themselves would make just about everything to date look like a garden party.

Do remember, both Russia and China have a bad time with Islamic extremists as well. Plus India is on their border, is already jittery, and can make glass parking lots themselves.

If rogue elements of Pakistan, or even a sufficiently large trans-national terrrorist organization working from that region, detonated one, I think you'd see some seriously unified ugliness real fast. (If not unified, at least coordinated.)

[larmer]

Item 'E' has probably been going on in various forms since before 2001. Pakistan is a challenging ally for America so various tacks including in your grill have probably been used as necessary.

[bombardiette]

In all fairness, I get more murderous with each season of American Idol too...

And Item the Eth...I seriously lolled. A lot.

At least with American Idol

[bytchearse]

There won't be anyone questioning your glee when you celebrate their demise.

Oh dear, was that my outside voice?

[retiredmaj]

If that was *their* only reason, they might be able to make a case.

I've been waiting for the ICC to declare "Idol," "Wheel of Fortune," and the entire category of human misery shows as represented by Jerry Spriger as "Crimes aginst Humanity."

As an addendum to item "Eth," I'd likely be having my conversation while a squadron of BUFFs and Strike Eagles were orbiting Pakistan's primary military sites and major cities. Just so's they knew I was kinda serious.

[turkchief]

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