tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post6522168102754293888..comments2024-03-28T10:37:38.851-11:00Comments on Intelliblog: IN THE NEWSIntellibloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04262938291462934103noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-22112520048846072722011-05-05T04:52:37.970-11:002011-05-05T04:52:37.970-11:00Hear, hear ... to reiterate and reflect on both yo...Hear, hear ... to reiterate and reflect on both your blog article, and Jacqui's comments above ... move me, too ... thank you.Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09740381927768808077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-70390104897338742452011-05-03T17:42:03.776-11:002011-05-03T17:42:03.776-11:00Oh yes NIc, I do hope we don't get another spa...Oh yes NIc, I do hope we don't get another spate of terrorist attacks now....Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13969764234193384841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-54459932484854532152011-05-03T16:09:02.791-11:002011-05-03T16:09:02.791-11:00Martin Luther King, Jr was correct. You cannot go ...Martin Luther King, Jr was correct. You cannot go murdering unarmed people. And in any case, the death of bin Laden doesn't serve anyone's cause.<br /><br />I think that Osama Bin Laden should have been brought to trial, in the Hague, before the most serious, learned and neutral genocide judges in Europe. The evidence, provided by witnesses and written records, would have provided accurate and irrefutable history on his crimes. <br /><br />As it is, we have no idea if Osama Bin Laden had anything to do with the massacres in Bali, New York, the London Underground, Madrid etc etc. I can imagine that within a generation Osama Bin Laden's reputation will be whitewashed, simply because there was no trial in 2011.<br /><br />Adolf Eichmann was given a fair trial in Israel in 1961. The records from his trial stand as rock solid evidence, tested and confirmed, for all time.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-74894625737449967262011-05-03T13:33:39.538-11:002011-05-03T13:33:39.538-11:00I dread to see the consequences of this action now...I dread to see the consequences of this action now. I am sure there will be a violent reaction...<br />As Jacqui says above, there have ben serious errors on both sides and as much as we can hope this latest reprisal "evens out the score", vendettas are notorious for a fight till the bitter end...Penthehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02226869141298079186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417961221792880115.post-2671015688596726232011-05-02T23:57:16.997-11:002011-05-02T23:57:16.997-11:00I feel the news media (and not just ours here in t...I feel the news media (and not just ours here in the states) has blown the "celebration" of Bin Laden's death all out of proportion. From what I can determine it was the young emptying the bars and dancing into the streets in New York City.<br /><br />9/11 was the first bump in charmed lives of that generation. He was their boogie man and he was dead. Still his body was not hung from the portico of a hotel for days like Mussolini's at the end of WWII.<br /><br />Most American citizens behaved quite quietly. For us the report of his death was closure. Not unlike hearing the pronouncement of Ted Bundy's successful execution whether you believe in capital punishment or not.<br /><br />And I certainly do not believe (even though I do go along with some conspiracy theories) we faked this. I understand the burial at sea was in keeping with the Muslim tradition of burial within 24 hours and that at sea his body would not risk being dug up and mutilated. <br /><br />As for the eye for an eye bit that seems to pervade several major religions in the world Bin Laden argued that 9/11 was an atonement for sins of the American people. GW called our invasion of Iraq a holy war. But that we could have put both on a gallows and hung both at the same time.JBinford-Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14293248281473648182noreply@blogger.com