[LINK] OT: bin Laden is dead

[Darrell Burkey]

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:54, Karl Auer wrote:

<Lots of good stuff clipped. Thanks though, good read>

> There is of course another matter here, that seems to have been
> forgotten in all the kerfuffle. What did Osama bin Laden want, and why
> did he want it? The US (and all of us) would do better combating those
> reasons than combating their symptoms, because those reasons did not die
> with Osama bin Laden.

Absolutely! I was actually asking myself these very things while
watching the events of 911 unfold. Being born and raised in the US (in a
military environment no less), I think it's very unlikely that Americans
are even capable of considering their role in all this.

They need to get out more IMHO. 


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