GET SOME!

[gridlore]

So we took down Osama. In person. JSOC troops put lead downrange and blew that waste of carbon away. I said long ago that my fondest wish was that the last thing bin Laden saw in this world was a grinning US solider. Sometimes dreams come true.

Best part? We've got the body. Early reports are it will de disposed of secretly, to keep his burial site from becoming a rallying point. Which means he's not getting the traditional Islamic burial rituals done.

What's really interesting is the news that he was living in a mansion in Pakistan's capital. Time for us to really lean on that nation and their dodgy intelligence service. Hard.

This is like us killing Yamamoto during WWII. It didn't end the war, but it deprived the enemy of a master strategist and a powerful symbol. This does the same thing.

The absolutely best part about today? Watching the wingnuts tear themselves to shreds trying to attack Obama over this.

Comments

[kengr]

If it wasn't that it'd turn him into more of a martyr, I'd consider treating him the way they treated some Moros a century ago.

*Publicly* sew him into a pigskin before sending him off to his secret burial.

And feeding his corpse to dogs, would get the animal rights folks all over us. Rightly.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I'd inter him in a pig trough here in America. Let those who would worship him as a martyr do so at an American pig farm.

How we handle his body is symbolic. I'd show it as much disrespect as possible, to show the esteem with which I hold his ideals.

Unfortunately, they are going to show his body respect in accordance with Islamic custom.

I don't know how to express this properly but I think treating him as a Muslim enshrines his hatred for us rather than reconciling our supposed belief it was his extremism that was wrong, not his faith.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

We have to be better than he would be or we fail in victory. Full stop. You speak of reveling in the cesspit he lived in. You are dishonoring your uniform, airman.

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

"We have to be better than he would be or we fail in victory."

*nod*

My personal feelings are hard to separate from my professional perspective sometimes. I would not knowingly dishonor my uniform nor those who have served. When I used that icon I chose a symbol that represents more than myself. Thank you for calling me on it.