Osama Bin Laden is dead and it's funny

I never find the death of another human funny. Or the death of anything really (Ok, I might snigger when lithium decides to go on a mosquito hunt and squashes the little things with a tissue sometimes. It's the noise he makes as he does it). Laugh at a man being shot? Why? His actions in life have nothing to do with whether or not death is funny. He was still human and the whole affair is just sad.

I find the people who find it hilarious pretty disturbing.

 

How do you know what everybody has been thinking about? :toetap05:

 

well, he was hiding on the other side of the planet from america. and the rank has nothing to do with the funniness of his death, the point there was just that it was not entirely fair to compare the guy giving the orders to those following some of them.

you're not necessarily wrong here. i just don't think it's as big a deal as you seem to. it's pretty normal to make fun of one's enemy, and if the hatred is intense enough, those insults will continue after death. it has nothing to do with america, it's just groupthink/human nature.

i'll admit i don't keep up with popular culture that well, but from what i've seen there's a lot of jokes about bin laden himself since he's back in the public eye, but i haven't seen any jokes directly about him being shot.

 

After 2003 the government stopped talking about it, the media stopped talking about it, my friends in the military were deployed overseas for reasons that had nothing to do with Osama, I rarely if ever heard anyone in the general public mention it except to wonder what happened to the mission of finding him.

 

what more could the general public really do about it?

 

Finding him certainly became less important at that point, perhaps because there was no Osama to find at that point.

Just a theory.

 

Obl was the furthest thing on our mind in Fallujah, Basra, Baghdad, Tikrit.. In fact there was no Taliban or Al Qaeda there. This is IRAQ^^ .. ..

 

I'm guilty of this too because I sat here for 8 years and did nothing but bitch about it to friends and over the internet, but the general public should have gotten fucking pissed off that we were sacrificing lives for completely extraneous missions that had nothing to do with the original reason we went to war.

The general public should have been far more vocal and far less supportive of the fact that we were spending money and manpower on something that had nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden.

I'm not trying to be a hypocrite though; I sat here pissed off for years and never did shit about it. I was referring more to the fact that the government and media stopped talking about it.

What do you mean? That because they couldn't find him, there was no point in talking about him for 8 years? Or something more sinister and conspiratorial?

A sibling of a friend of mine is deployed in Afghanistan right now and his mission is to go into villages and basically buy the villages, pay the villagers money to leave so the US troops can move in.

What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Why are we still there?

 

What I meant is that perhaps (emphasis on perhaps) the reason he became less important to the military over the years, (finding, capturing him, etc.) is because he was already dead/not worth finding.

 

take over opium control, secure the territory for proposed pipeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline ..

 

Brother Orison, I know you don't particularly want to discuss the issue, but do you have any thoughts on it?

 

I thought thats what you meant. I think its probably the latter. The fact that the US didn't kill or take Osama into custody after the WTC bombing in 1993, or the bombing of US embassies in 1998, or the bombing of the US Cole in 2000 speaks volumes.

well, that makes sense. Thanks for the link. Thats the first I've heard of the pipeline.

 

I was lead to believe obl died in tora bora in 2002, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A62618-2002Apr16&notFound=true I spent very little time in gannystan. one I dont respond to cold very well.. and well as you can see from this article. ground troops had little engagement atgt. Returning me to the populations centers of Iraq where ground troops were needed more. And thus we forgot all about obl.. :sultan: Fallujah was the deadliest battle I had ever encountered, aswell our very first encounter with an IED.. we seen IED often, but this the only time we ran one over ourselves.

 

Russia Knew of this wealth also. They just went about it the wrong way and of course America Armed the Rebels in the 1980s the same ones were fighting today. least some of them anyways.

 

What was Russia's reaction to the shit in the middle east?

 

Its so funny ironic not funny haha how that works....

So you think the US has a presence there for the exact same reason that Russia once did?

How long did Russia try to gain control over Afghanistan? Wasn't it something like 9 years before they gave up? About as long as we've been there.

 

I dont know much of the Russian history. Im sorry..

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCD14IrOcIs&feature=bf_prev&list=PL581F13CCB90AE78B&index=15"]YouTube - Pixies - Where is my Mind (Fight Club Soundtrack)

 

I think Russia is broke.. Just dont hear anything about Russia at all anymore. What gives?..

 

Maybe Russia has been hanging out in the same hideout as Bin Laden.

I feel vaguely uncomfortable making that joke in a thread about the insensitivity of making jokes about a dead man.