Well, now

[veronica_rich]

Working with Pakistan to get bin Laden - now THAT'S cooperation. Good job, guys!

(I do wonder who in his organization is going to step up to take his place, though. Taking out the head may weaken a group but it doesn't necessarily mean its end. Still, this is an important psychological piece of news for a lot of Americans, at the least.)

ETA: I do confess I'm rather uneasy celebrating anyone's death. It may be a lingering superstition from my mother, who always pointed out anytime anyone she knew wished death or illness on someone, it usually seemed it struck someone that person loved instead. Or maybe it's just my typical reaction to the vast majority of extremist reaction; I'm not sure.

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[finding-neo.livejournal.com]

We might rejoice, but this isn't over. He's now a martyr to the anti-American movement. Wonderful.

I am extremely disgusted by the celebratory nature of American's reactions. People are shooting off fireworks in some places.

I am sure there was rejoicing in the streets in the Middle East somewhere when the World Trade Center buildings came down.

An eye for an eye? We're a Christian nation, supposedly.....

Even if he had been captured, his sentence would have been death. I suppose that's the only thing the "other side" understands would happen to him as their view of life is different than ours.

I'm certainly not upset that he's dead, just that Americans think the world revolves around us.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I vascillated last night, watching the news footage of the celebrations, between annoyed and understanding some of it. Those college kids - they've spent half their lives living and hearing about this, and two wars, one of which was ostensibly predicated on bin Laden (I think we've all given up the pretense Iraq ever was in the first place). You and I are probably too old to appreciate that, but I imagine it had a similar impact that seeing Challenger explode had on me back in grade school, with respect to the space program and space, period. Plus, there are people in NYC who were truly traumatized by this, being so close to what happened. I can understand their point in being at Ground Zero last night.

Still, yeah - I don't quite get it myself. I'll go so far as to say I'm glad he's gone, but "jubilance" isn't quite it.