As we all know, Osama Bin Laden is dead. But the question is, what's next?
But for all you skeptics out there...
There's news/analysis/discussions/debates/etc about this all over the world but I want to have this discussion with my fellow SENers. My thoughts:
I personally feel Bin Laden's death isn't death to be so exuberant about. Sure "justice" has been done but the death of one person, no matter how significant he or she may be, isn't something to celebrate about. As said in Naruto, one of my favorite mangas/animes of all time, death leads to more death and we would only be perpetuating the cycle of hate and vengeance. As quoted by one of my friends on facebook:
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sometimes it's difficult to remember that the object of so much hatred and resentment is one of God's creations. we ought to celebrate the end of the terror wrought by bin Laden, and the cooperation between Pakistan and America, but death is never worth celebrating.
But that's not the case. Or is it?
Killing the symbolic leader of terrorism isn't going to put an end to terrorism, it'll only feed the fire to the anti-American sentiment. Also put it this way: say you are in a debate/discussion about politics or religion. If the opposing side argues or tries to prove you wrong, it'll only harden your heart. Same thing can be said for this whole issue: killing Bin Laden will only harden the already ever so hardened and bitter hearts of the terrorists out there and possibly spur then to take greater action or retaliation. If you want to put out a fire, you gotta put it all out.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have killed Osama Bin Laden - rather that this by no means is the end of anything; killing him isn't going to bring back the 3000+ innocents his organization killed almost 10 years ago. Al Qaeda is still out there, terrorists are still out there, and the bitter sentiment people hold against Americans is still out there; the only thing we've done is killed one significant man. Is it a blow to their moral? This is debatable but IMHO I think it'll only incite them; they're going to treat Bin Laden as a martyr and that what he's done is a paragon of what all his followers should be like or do. Bin Laden's death is only the "beginning" of greater things which I imagine may come.
Oh and, I think this would be an appropriate time for:
Feel free to discuss (the issue, not the video itself)
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 2 2011, 8:42 pm by MillenniumArmy.
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