Bin Laden Dead?

i'd wager brits who put that soppy fake-MLK quote on facebook or whatever probably aren't old enough to know who thatcher is/was (xposts)

Oh, brits, is it?

I really feel like fabricating a quote that gets circulated for months and then tagging everybody that circulates it in a FB note and going YER ALL DOUCHES

yeah the time to dance over Reagan/Thatcher's death was 1981

Ed Koch, 1977

yeah the time to dance over Reagan/Thatcher's death was 1981

(Some of) You might have forgiven Reagan, we'll never forgive Thatcher

Sam Kinison and Jeff Dahmer were right on time, tho

fuck Reagan, I'd be cool with necromancing him and killing him again

Strikes me, Reagan did admit to being wrong/mistaken about some things.

Not Thatch, except for the sell-off of ITV franchises to highest bidder (which she admitted was a mistake), no worries (well not that many) on that one by comparison, Mrs.

Can't think of many reasons not to be happy about Mugabe's death, especially if it happens in office and not in some comfortable retirement.

Five Men FROM LONDON arrested near Sellafield

BBC not sure of any connection with death of OBL but you never know says BBC.

Strikes me, Reagan did admit to being wrong/mistaken about not being able to recall some things.

xp - I think Thatcher regretted not doing enough about those inner cities iirc.

What, not using nuclear warheads on them?

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you know why I love America, is Taco Bell

We used to have some, over here!

So good it's worth a suicide mission

http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/taco-bell-drive-thru-728565.jpg

Dude got full-on value all right.

America, America
God shred some cheese for me

I understand killing people sucks, but I don't know if I'm a universal "killing is bad" pacifist now. Sometimes, you gotta bust into a compound in Pakistan and shoot a guy and it's a-ok in my book and a reason to breathe a sigh of something or another.

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My sister just visited from England, and literally one of only three things on her agenda was going to Taco Bell. She thinks if she opened a Taco Bell in Leeds she'd be rich.

I would be fine w/ life in prison for osama

I think it'd be a bigger 'fuck you' in a way and pretty symbolic

but obv that would be impossible in this country

mh: unless you know, there's more to come

I wd "cap" most of the interviewees in Inside Job

Wouldn't disagree but I have a low tolerance for the shitstorm of political drama that would ensue. xxp

but wd settle for life sentences

instead, caviar all around!

xp

So think Bin Laden had a backlog of posthumous tapes ready to go, like Yul Brynner's anti-smoking PSA? If not it seems like a big missed opportunity.

There's supposed to be a posthumous one coming

iatee otm

"If you are watching this, then I am dead. And now, everyone ... look under your seats!"

Oh, wait. I'm thinking of Oprah's posthumous video.

the truly Big O

This morning the public transit stations had police handing out "If you see something, say something" leaflets. I guess the terror code is whatever used to be orange or something.

Frankly i think 10+ years of bombing & occupying Muslim countries has done more to stoke the anti-US fires than killing this one guy, no matter how big a myth we've made of him.

http://www.animedude.net/pics/2009/08/240px-big_o.jpg

btw "we wanted to bury him in accordance w/ Muslim law" is an awesome fig leaf for "you aint gettin the body"

Nobody wanted the body anyway

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nobody is rather sweeping

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nobody is rather sweeping

Well they did ask the Saudis

Frankly i think 10+ years of bombing & occupying Muslim countries has done more to stoke the anti-US fires than killing this one guy, no matter how big a myth we've made of him.

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i wonder if the US is gonna drop the whole "Pakistan is a key ally in the war on terror" thing now, and switch sides to India in exchange for trade guarantees

the wisdom-spin on Morning Edition was, well, Obama can't tell Pakistan they're grounded cuz they have nukes.

so I say
INVADE!

i wonder if the US is gonna drop the whole "Pakistan is a key ally in the war on terror" thing now, and switch sides to India in exchange for trade guarantees

They could do it, but it would be a spectacularly stupid thing to do diplomatically.

They won't do that

pakistain is still a really dangerous and unstable potentially nukey-islamist hellhole

im sure the US cutting all ties would make everything fine though

"everything fine" an unshakable goal of enrique's realpolitik

The guy was already quickly becoming a fossil in his time, and there's some grim irony in the entire al Qaeda shtick about causing havoc to get popular sentiment against the US, leading to their own brand of regime change, when Osama was most likely reliant on the Pakistani ISS or even sympathetic individuals in the government.

I know it's not 100%, but the entire popular uprising movement that's been happening is killing al Qaeda as much or more than military action. They always claimed to be more of a resource center or clearinghouse for disparate groups, but that never really hashed out, and I think the idea of ObL as CEO of al Qaeda, Inc. is an idea that actually had traction within the group itself.

I still think that hanging from lightposts and screaming "USA!" in front of the White House is misguided and crass, and thinking that the death of one guy provides any sort of closure is still pretty misguided, but hey, sometimes symbolic things are worth it.

Oh yeah, and Pakistan is and always has been a clusterfuck.