Do you believe that Osama bin Laden's death signifies the end of terrorism in America?
According to Benazir Bhutto (when she was alive) Osama bin Laden was assassinated several years ago. She said so when interviewed by David Frost on the BBC. That comment was edited out of the program (you can watch it on UTube) - why?
It was never mentioned on the news - why? There was never any official response to her statement - why? The primary purpose of 'the war on terror' is to take away YOUR liberties - it is being waged against YOU!
The secondary purpose is to provide an excuse for military action in the Middle East. To build public support for an attack against Iran. They want those Iranian oilfields: that they lost in 1979, back.
Expect two things:1) Further erosion of your rights as a citizen.2) A false flag operation (a staged terrorist attack) against targets in Europe or America with Iran or Syria (or maybe both) being implicated by our intelligence services. Our leaders are warning us that we shouldn't be complacent; that bin Laden's death is not the end of the terrorist threat. They're right about the threat.
They're wrong about the identity of the terrorists.
Osama Bin Laden is just one person who hates America. Unfortunately, there are others and terrorism does not end with him.
Let's hope that's the end. Catching that guy cost us $2 Trillion, 5,000 American lives, our relations with Europe, our 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th amendments, Article II of the constitution, our empire, and two failed governements propped up by us. The question is, what happens next in the US?
It sounds like everyone is convinced we should continue this war for perpetuity. Enjoy, tough guys. It is a law of history that war is an expensive undertaking.
Not even close. It might even cause more terrorism. Though it's a good thing he was killed.
Look, Bin Laden was just a face that the American government needed for the terrorist monster. I was in Afghanistan 5 years ago and everyone knew that Osama was in Pakistan. Moreover, he never even took credit for the 9/11 attacks.
Why? Because he didn't organize them; the Pakistani intelligence department did. Terrorism is just a made-up propoganda machine that keeps the populous under control.
Most of you people are more than happy to give up your constitutional rights for some falsified sense of security. How do you think tler and Stalin came to power? This is the road that every democracy in history has taken before plunging into the darkness.
Don't believe me, read any book on the fall of the Roman Empire. And just so everyone is aware, the Taliban hate America because we have killed over 4 million people during "police operations. " This is what the CIA calls "blowback.
An open enemy is never the problem its the unseen ones who create havoc. No, I don't think its over. I believe we have more trouble internally than externally.
In the last 25 years we have had far more "home grown" acts of terrorism (Oklahoma City, school shootings) than external ones (Sept. 11th). All Osama did was put a face on terrorism that already existed.
Acts of terror and the propagation of fear is the new way to wage war. Unfortunately, while his death might lessen the immediate danger, we are in no way genuinely safer than when he was alive.
Never. United States should improve their foreign policy first. They should leave Iraq and Afghanistan first.
They should not interfere other country.
I think it's too much to expect that this will mean the END of terrorism in America. I do hope (and believe) that it might possibly be the BEGINNING of the end... or might LEAD to the end, eventually.
It is a good start. hubpages.com/hub/Usama-Bin-Laden-is-dead... this out.
Absolutely not there other terrorist cells still out there Osama Bin Laden was not the only one sure he was a ringleader but don't you think there is another just waiting to take his place. It may have actually raised our terrorism threat seems how his followers are probably pretty upset with us. But I must say I'm very glad to see him gone thats one less mind that they have to come up with ideas and plans to accomplish a terroristic action against us.
That would be very nice but such an assumption on our part would be a huge mistake. Bin Laden may be a bigger motivator in death than in life. There will be many who followed him who will be more than willing to give their lives in order to kill Americans and damage our country.
The battle against terrorism will continue as long as there are fanatics who consider us infidels in their world. WB.
Terrorism in America won't end until you get rid of all the bullies. Osama was a bully on the grand scale of things, in my view. Just off the cuff.
There will always be a radical islamist to take his place. There are thousands waiting to be the next obama.
This will not even come close to ending terrorism, but it does attain a measure of justice for those dead by his hands and plans. Someone will take his place, and we will kill him to. They will eventually begin to understand that we will not live in fear.It will just take time.
Last week, Afghanistan; two coalition troops were injured and one killed by Afghan soldiers; the US reached an agreement with the Afghan government to maintain a presence in the country until 2024; and the US failed to break a diplomatic deadlock with Pakistan after the US refused to apologise for killing 25 Pakistani soldiers in November. This week, the White House will celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of Osama bin Laden as though it were the crowning achievement of its foreign policy. On Wednesday, Obama will hold a rare televised interview in the situation room to discuss the raid in Abbottabad.
His campaign has released of a web video in which Bill Clinton says President Obama "took the harder and the more honorable path, and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result". The man who entered the White House with the message of "hope" and "change" wants to hold on to it with a record of "shoot to kill". Republicans are right to criticise the president for the crass manner in which he is "dancing around the end zone".
Unfortunately, those criticisms ring hollow from a party whose leader played dress up on the USS Abraham Lincoln to announce the end of a war that is still not over, and whose presidential candidate claims Obama should stop travelling the globe "apologising for" America. Moreover, the problem is not that Obama is exploiting a moment of national unity for partisan gain – though he most certainly is – but that this extra-judicial execution of an unmourned man has proved the only event capable of uniting the country since 9/11. For, as the events over the last week bear out, beyond avenging the attacks on the world trade centre, the assassination of Bin Laden has achieved precious little. Assassination is not a foreign policy.
Nor is it a judicial strategy. Vengeance, however righteous, is not an argument, let alone a plan. The two wars, ostensibly launched in response to 11 September 2001 have been disasters, leaving many more civilians dead than the original act of terror.
America's standing around the world has yet to fully recover. The geopolitical relations in the area around Afghanistan and Pakistan remain fragile. Obama's approval ratings spiked for a month after the Abbottabad raid , before dipping back below 50% where they remain.
Both the fact and the manner of Bin Laden's demise simply proved what nobody ever doubted: America's ability to kill remains intact and unrivalled. Sadly, its ability to prosecute, convict, persuade and develop remains either untested or unproven. Every time a drone kills a kid in Pakistan, the US creates more terrorists than it can ever hope to prevent through a single assassination.
Unlike Trayvon Martin, the dead may not "look like" Obama. But they are still someone's son (or daughter). The episodic atrocities leaked to American newspapers hardly instil confidence in the mission either.
Its three principal interventions in the region – Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya – have ended with death of leaders at the hands of mob, hangman or marksman. But none has provided enduring benefits. That Obama would be unsubtle in making Bin Laden's execution a central element of his reelection strategy was clear from his state of the union speech in January, which both started and finished with a recollection of the Navy Seals' deadly deed.
Simplistic, certainly, but convincing? Indeed, if such a bumper sticker, boasting bailouts and bullets, sums up anything, it's the partial and inadequate nature of Obama's tenure that has garnered such disappointment. General Motors' continued existence is good news for its workers and American manufacturing.
But unemployment in Detroit remains at 17.8%. The slogan "America is back" intended to celebrate the recovery polled badly because, given the economic precariousness, few were in a celebratory mood. Similarly, given his predecessor's incompetence, Obama's accomplishment of Bin Laden's death is an achievement of sorts.
Hayden replied: "Tora Bora in 2001." The trouble is, comparing yourself to Bush sets the bar far lower than the expectation Obama had originally set up. Since al-Qaida was never a top-down organisation, Bin Laden's assassination does not make much of a dent in the terror threat.
So it's an "achievement" that makes little difference to anyone's life, either in Afghanistan, or Pakistan or the US. That's precisely why Obama has to keep reminding people that it happened – but why the benefits of doing so are so shortlived. Because of everything else that's going on – both abroad and at home – it's easily forgettable.
So, let the hoop-la begin and let jingoism reign. Let the cameras roll on the retrospectives, reconstructions and general revelling in the military prowess of a crack squad on a tough mission, launched by the warrior-in-chief who held his nerve. "He coldly calculated the odds of whether Osama bin Laden would be in that villa – they were about 50/50.
He coldly calculated that we would probably never get odds as good as 50/50 and so he went forward. And then, let the printers start on the new bumper stickers. Not "Yes We Can", but "Could Be Worse".
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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