Virama: This won't be a popular stance but I'm disgusted by the USA.
All this "tears of joy" bullshit makes me sick.
What about Vietnam? Iraq? USA has done its fair bit of fucked up shit. To wit, here is my facebook status:
****** finds it interesting how everyone is all proud and going "Woohoo" that Osama Bin Laden is dead. Yet no one is recognising the fact that he hid for over a decade from the world's leading superpower, fought for what he believed in and pretty much never stooped down to a media shit-flinging fight. At least he had integrity. RIP brave warrior of Allah.
I am not happy about bin Laden's death; happy isn't an emotion to have about death, anyone's death. But I feel a lot of closure by his death. In the interests of full disclosure I was 10 on September 11th, 2001 and so much of my life has been shaped by that event and the plans/ideology of this man.
I wouldn't go so far as to say he had integrity, though since I really don't know anything about bin Laden personally I couldn't tell you that. I also wouldn't call him a "warrior of Allah". His perversion of Islam is not something to celebrate any more than his death is.