Ammonite
It is one thing to be relieved at the death of an evil person and entirely another to actively seek the death penalty as an option within a judicial system. I can completely understand the mixed feelings regardless of the political implications and ramifications.

It would be like finding out that Jack the Ripper or Charles Manson had died - a sense of relief but not a reason to bring back the death penalty which might be wrongly used against an innocent person in a different scenario.

Most of us got it. :)

The death of Osama bin Laden will probably escalate terrorism in the short term but in the long term it will be but a blip on the progress of the war in opposition to the West.
A thousand years from now he will still be remembered.

In 1170AD the Normans (aka English) invaded Ireland and Dermot Mc Morrough, who invited them in, is still known as "The First Traitor".
What was started then is still going on and I doubt that the Muslims and Arabs in general are any less persistent than the Irish.

So get used to it; the threat of terrorist attacks has become a way of life.

As ye sow ......

OUG,
Yes, I found it terribly saddening to see these morons dancing & carrying on like as if it were something to celebrate. We can't earn any respect displaying this mentality.

*And even if it's true that he was as presented - how do we know they got him? We only go on the lines we are fed.*

Poirot, there are in fact good reasons. If they never got him,
bin Laden would surely be delighted to stand up, make another
video proving the date and thumb his nose at the USA in glee.
That would cost Obama his presidency, you can be sure.

So I'd say they would have been pretty thorough on that one,
well aware of the implications of getting it wrong.

"aka English", Is Mise?

>>In 1170AD the Normans (aka English) invaded Ireland<<

Dermot MacMurrough petitioned Henry II to help him in his feud with Tiernan O'Ruark and Rory O'Connor.

Henry was the great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and was a Norman through and through - his titles included Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony and Count of Nantes.

He was born in France. He married Eleanor of Aquitaine, a well-known French person. In short, he was no more English than Napoleon

Moreover, the King assigned the task of putting the team together for our bhoyo to his Norman pals - eventually, it was Richard de Clare who got it all together.

To cap it all, when Henry did intervene later, it was because he suspected that Ireland would be the launch-pad for... the Saxon English to retake the country.

I know, Iknow. All foreigners look alike, don't they.

But to mistake the Normans for English, so soon after Hastings, shows a cavalier disregard for key events in history.