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Originally posted by Mirac Honorguard:
2. You're NOT right about having the right to celebrate the killings we done now in Afghanistan. Did you see that part on the tv when those sick Arabian people were celebrating because of what just happenend back then at the WTC?? That was disgusting  We shouldn't do the same as those sickos, there is no celebration after war, only death.
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I wouldn't use the word "celebrate" personally. I feel satisfaction that steps are being taken to try and achieve justice for those who lost their lives. IMHO this is certianly not the LONG-TERM solution to this issue, but in the short-term we have to take the necessary steps to ensure that the perpetrators of the crime are brought to justice. The Taliban were given an entire month to provide bin Laden to the US to stand trial and they didn't. They were given NUMEROUS warnings and persisted in stalling and political games.
Even if he wasn't guilty of the actual crime bin Laden is guilty of inciting religious hatred and jihad against innocent people with the statement he released today, where he praises the attacks of Sept 14. Unfortunately, his status in the Islamic world is such that tens of thousands of idealistic fundamentalist Islamic youth with no prospects of improving their lives will hear him and clutch on his words as their one hope on this earth.
Having said all that, I wouldn't be celebrating. It's an unpleasant task, but unfortunately it had to be done. I'd be focusing on coming up with a LONG-TERM solution to this problem - looking at the causal factors that drive young men to give up their lives (rightly or wrongly) to give up their lives for a cause that they believe is right and doing something about them. Lives are terrible things to waste - for all of us.
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