It's fairly obvious that we prefer romance and glamour to death and mayhem. But it did momentarily upstage the wedding of the British Royal Family.
Watching them watching the S.E.A.L.S, it was obvious Obama was worried that they had the wrong guy and it wouldn't happen, Secretary Clinton that they had the right guy and it would.
Silly questions about how didn't Pakistan know he was there. The U>S> didn't know I was here for nearly 50 years.
The compound was close enough to the military school to have locals think it was merely part of their training ground or their brig, from the looks of it. We often see houses and call them "Mafia Houses" but do we know who lives in them? Nope. Despite having 5 living units surrounding mine, except for the slamming of the doors downstairs, the rest of us barely know if any of us have come and gone, especially when the rest aren't in solitary existence. So it's a stupid propogandist speculation designed to discredit Pakistan after a clear violation of invading their borders, armed, into an unarmed area.
Fortunately, this time a whole country wasn't pulverized because of a vendetta against one man? Victory? I'm not so sure anyone sitting surrounded by tons of security really has the right to claim it as his. But that's the way of it. In other countries, where the Chief of the Military is also the Head Honcho of the country, they do don military uniforms to distinguish the difference between a military and civilian action. The US has never.
Osama Bin Laden was fading into history here anyway. I haven't heard anyone mention him or al Queada in ages-or however they want to spell it. I doubt they'll get much real info from anything seized at the house. Do I really want to see pictures of a shot-up body? No. Would I believe they're not phot-shopped? Not completely. They should have called in Internationals for confirmation before conveniently disposing of the body, if indeed they did and they aren't holding the live man in interrogation someplace. And what of the surviviors of the invasion?
I thought there were international agreements in place about menacing and killing the children of other world leaders. But maybe that's only in Europe, and of course, those rules don't apply when it comes to the USA. No rules apply, apparently. They'll do what they please when they please no matter who they violate. What does that make them? Terrorsts 2nd Class. They use the fact that they're a country(United is questionable) to hide behind. The Taliban thinks they're a country too. They think they are Afghanistan. Everybody needs to stop making threats, stop making vendettas, stop making violence, stop repressing and oppressing everyone else. I'd much prefer to see housing and medical facilities than military built from tax dollars. I know a lot of people don't get it yet; they're still brainwashed from the McCarthy era and the Bushian "traitorists" rhetoric. I think letting the government get away with being tyrants is being a traitor to the Constitution of the United States of America. A lot of things politicians say are mere bait to see the public reaction. And they're not honest. They're afraid of their friends not liking what they say.
During the second invasion of Iraq, only two people on day one spoke against. And people visibly retreated from them. I was one of the two. Years later, Mr. Bush himself said it was a mistake. Only two out of 300 had the guts to say so from the first? Two women. Oh well.
Today when I closed my eyes, I saw a foot with it's ankle attached rolling away in some dust. Then I saw the face of a man, straight brown hair, mustache, thin long nose, with left eye blind. Next I saw an orange cat, not unusual, we own one, but then the jumped and was a small Bengal tiger rearing up, thoug it did not attack. Now once more I have a headache.
I'd like to see our heros brave on the home front, protecting us where we need it most, romances in full bloom and glamour achievable to everyone. I'd like to see war and crime fictionalized on fotoreels where we defeat the "bad guys" by proxy of nobody really died, nobody really got killed, nobody really got raped, nobody's house was invaded. But that's not the way it is. Thre popularity of cop shows indicates a need to know the truth and to see the true bad guy pay. Out in the real world, the bad guy, the enemy, is always the one who does you harm. Whether he's part of your country or not. Being a victim doesn't hurt any less just because they're on the other side of the financial fence.
Not being familiar with Islamic traditions, I don't know their funeral rites or their prescribed time of mourning. Nor do I know those of Lybia. But my condolences do go to those who feel these losses. It doesn't hurt any less just because you've been labeled as something bad by the USA. To further give you perspective, the day John Kennedy was killed, I was in the girl's room at Junior High School. Someone burst in hysterical in tears and blurted out "The President's been killed!" My response, not being so closed minded or American, was "Which one?" The girl's reply was "There is only one President!" I had to ask "The one President of which country? You know there are more countries in the world." She was stunned, then got mad, told me how ignorant I was, and finally said "President Kennedy." My response was "Oh." Which was more than I got when I had gone in and said Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash. The response was "So what?" and "Who's that?" So, the fact that they know other countries exist is a step forward. But all their school maps show a gigantic USA and a teeny, tiny world. Their perspective hasn't changed.
Watching them watching the S.E.A.L.S, it was obvious Obama was worried that they had the wrong guy and it wouldn't happen, Secretary Clinton that they had the right guy and it would.
Silly questions about how didn't Pakistan know he was there. The U>S> didn't know I was here for nearly 50 years.
The compound was close enough to the military school to have locals think it was merely part of their training ground or their brig, from the looks of it. We often see houses and call them "Mafia Houses" but do we know who lives in them? Nope. Despite having 5 living units surrounding mine, except for the slamming of the doors downstairs, the rest of us barely know if any of us have come and gone, especially when the rest aren't in solitary existence. So it's a stupid propogandist speculation designed to discredit Pakistan after a clear violation of invading their borders, armed, into an unarmed area.
Fortunately, this time a whole country wasn't pulverized because of a vendetta against one man? Victory? I'm not so sure anyone sitting surrounded by tons of security really has the right to claim it as his. But that's the way of it. In other countries, where the Chief of the Military is also the Head Honcho of the country, they do don military uniforms to distinguish the difference between a military and civilian action. The US has never.
Osama Bin Laden was fading into history here anyway. I haven't heard anyone mention him or al Queada in ages-or however they want to spell it. I doubt they'll get much real info from anything seized at the house. Do I really want to see pictures of a shot-up body? No. Would I believe they're not phot-shopped? Not completely. They should have called in Internationals for confirmation before conveniently disposing of the body, if indeed they did and they aren't holding the live man in interrogation someplace. And what of the surviviors of the invasion?
I thought there were international agreements in place about menacing and killing the children of other world leaders. But maybe that's only in Europe, and of course, those rules don't apply when it comes to the USA. No rules apply, apparently. They'll do what they please when they please no matter who they violate. What does that make them? Terrorsts 2nd Class. They use the fact that they're a country(United is questionable) to hide behind. The Taliban thinks they're a country too. They think they are Afghanistan. Everybody needs to stop making threats, stop making vendettas, stop making violence, stop repressing and oppressing everyone else. I'd much prefer to see housing and medical facilities than military built from tax dollars. I know a lot of people don't get it yet; they're still brainwashed from the McCarthy era and the Bushian "traitorists" rhetoric. I think letting the government get away with being tyrants is being a traitor to the Constitution of the United States of America. A lot of things politicians say are mere bait to see the public reaction. And they're not honest. They're afraid of their friends not liking what they say.
During the second invasion of Iraq, only two people on day one spoke against. And people visibly retreated from them. I was one of the two. Years later, Mr. Bush himself said it was a mistake. Only two out of 300 had the guts to say so from the first? Two women. Oh well.
Today when I closed my eyes, I saw a foot with it's ankle attached rolling away in some dust. Then I saw the face of a man, straight brown hair, mustache, thin long nose, with left eye blind. Next I saw an orange cat, not unusual, we own one, but then the jumped and was a small Bengal tiger rearing up, thoug it did not attack. Now once more I have a headache.
I'd like to see our heros brave on the home front, protecting us where we need it most, romances in full bloom and glamour achievable to everyone. I'd like to see war and crime fictionalized on fotoreels where we defeat the "bad guys" by proxy of nobody really died, nobody really got killed, nobody really got raped, nobody's house was invaded. But that's not the way it is. Thre popularity of cop shows indicates a need to know the truth and to see the true bad guy pay. Out in the real world, the bad guy, the enemy, is always the one who does you harm. Whether he's part of your country or not. Being a victim doesn't hurt any less just because they're on the other side of the financial fence.
Not being familiar with Islamic traditions, I don't know their funeral rites or their prescribed time of mourning. Nor do I know those of Lybia. But my condolences do go to those who feel these losses. It doesn't hurt any less just because you've been labeled as something bad by the USA. To further give you perspective, the day John Kennedy was killed, I was in the girl's room at Junior High School. Someone burst in hysterical in tears and blurted out "The President's been killed!" My response, not being so closed minded or American, was "Which one?" The girl's reply was "There is only one President!" I had to ask "The one President of which country? You know there are more countries in the world." She was stunned, then got mad, told me how ignorant I was, and finally said "President Kennedy." My response was "Oh." Which was more than I got when I had gone in and said Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash. The response was "So what?" and "Who's that?" So, the fact that they know other countries exist is a step forward. But all their school maps show a gigantic USA and a teeny, tiny world. Their perspective hasn't changed.
