Osama bin Laden is dead, but what of our liberty?
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If there was any doubt about what the “War on Terror” has done to our liberty, it is quashed tonight. Imagine if on VJ day, when the country was in a state of elation and celebration after years of a war that had finally come to an end, the citizens of this country were told, “Yes, the enemy has been defeated, but now we must be more vigilant than ever. We must continue rationing all of our food and supplies indefinitely, and tomorrow you could be subjected to even more scrutiny before you’re allowed to conduct your personal business. The end of the war really means that our security concerns have actually been hightened.” Surely we would have seen riots in the streets. We had just fought a war against such repression.
Of course, I fully realize that World War II was a very different kind of war; but that’s exactly my point. That was the kind of war that could be won; and once it was the country could get back to normal. The war we’ve been ostensibly fighting for the last decade is so dangerous because there is no defined end. We can never win this war, and we’re not meant to. There have always been terrorists and there always will be; so as long as we are fighting a war or terror we will be fighting an endless war. I’m not the first person to make this observation, and many tonight will certainly accuse me of being insensitive or “un-American.” I don’t care though, because it is precisely at a moment like this that questions like mine must be raised. Otherwise, what are we fighting for in the first place.
As you go to sleep tonight, or when you wake tomorrow, ask yourself this: what are we celebrating? What has been won? Until we have an answer to that most important of questions, there should be no one in the streets. As it stands now, no one can even say what an answer to that question would look like; and that makes me sad. My one hope is that the death of Osama bin Laden will get Americans, at least some of them, to start asking the question.
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OSAMA BIN LADEN IS NOT DEAD… HIS DEATH MAY 1ST??? THE GOV’T ANNOUNCED HITLER WAS DEAD ON MAY 1ST.. AND GUESS WHAT ELSE HAPPENED ON MAY 1ST?? THE BIRTHDAY OF THE FREEMASON ILLUMINATI. OUR GOV’T IS CORRUPT.
Mankind will only have some semblance of peace when all religious groups who think there’s is the right god can accept the natural laws of the universe. Even then we’ll fight over what stars are made of for the sake of fighting.
It would have been nice to see the bastard paraded around in an orange jump suit in Guantanamo, but dead and eaten by sharks is a fairly decent second chioce.
Certainly the ‘war’ is far from over. Al Quaida et al are still there – sadly.
I suspect that Islamic fundamentalists will be plotting as I type to cause further death and mayhem on the west.
In a way, Osama was one head of the Hydra….there are several more, and more heads to replace them when the west blow them away.
Ultimately, we are at war with Islam – or the faction of Islam that supports the doctrine of Osama and co…
In the USA I believe only around 1% of your population are muslim therefore, in a country your size, there cannot be very many ‘fundementalists’ to plot and cause mayhem.
In Great Britain we have about 5% muslim. Even the French Secret Service openly call London ‘Londonistan’.
…and we are quite a small country…
By all means rejoice at the death of this monster…but there are many more monsters of Islam out there….
…and that is a quote from a muslim friend.
Sleep well tonight…..Be alert from tomorrow onwards.
We will win the war, but only if we realise we are not at war in Afghanistan or Iraq but in our own countries.
The death of bin Laden is not an end to anything, the terror will continue and may intensify. What they did in the United States was not a standard car bomb like in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was a military operation, which almost worked 100%, they didn’t get the White House. The only thing that might work in our favor, is the uprisings in Arab countries, and only if they can keep the clerics out of power.
We can never declare we won anything. This is not that type of war as you pointed out.
I tell you who I feel for: The 911 survivors, victims family’s,
our troops who have endured the longest “foreign” war in our history. Those that put up everything and made the sacrifice to serve. I’m happy for them as this may be some sort of closure and hope. As for him being killed, I’m fine with that. It would have been nightmarish to try and prosecute him. People like the Donald would have made a circus out of it. Kelly, nice job!
I agree Tim. Trump and his fellow idiots would have made hay over this had it failed.
“As for him being killed, I’m fine with that.”
I couldn’t agree more. I think that at this point this is certainly more of a psychological event than a strategic one, but of course the world’s a better place without the man in it. We have to be sure to not make it into more than what it is though, a good thing done by our military. Like I said, this isn’t exactly VJ Day…
Well said, MK.
I knew it was a long way from being over, this war on terror, nonetheless I still jumped for joy at the news of Osama’s death. I’m still joyful 🙂
Kelly, you bring up some really good points. I personally did not instantly want to jump for joy upon hearing that bin Laden had been killed. I am not sure he had been anything but a a ghostly figure to the terrorist movement lately anyway. I am more concern about the havoc that he an al Queda thrust upon the citizens of this country and the freedoms we have lost and will never recover. At one time, years ago, I occasionally enjoyed flying but will not do it again because of the hassle that has been imposed upon us. The fact that every phone call or e mail I send may or may not be monitored by the NSA. I do not see the government ever giving back any of the freedoms we once had and enjoyed.