Many Americans, including lots of my peers at Lafayette College last year, celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden. I'll post a link of my reaction a year ago here .
I just have a few questions for those who were celebrating. Are your lives better? Do you believe that you are safer from terrorism? Are you further away from economic hardship? As I said a year ago, bin Laden was a criminal who deserved harsh punishment; but the drunken celebrations that took place (disrupting many of us who were writing final papers, I might add) like they did, celebrating a death, demonstrated lots of misplaced energy by Americans.
One year later, are you any better off?
I know that Usama was identified as the number one suspect for 9/11 by the very next day, but it was never confirmed that he was indeed the mastermind behind the attacks. He was never brought to trial. He was never proven guilty of a single thing related to 9/11. Then instead of arresting the unarmed man, they kill him? Instead of a proper burial, they dump him in the ocean? And they won't release a single picture or video clip?
ReplyDeleteI think he was most likely a scapegoat.
Check this 5 minute summary-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LLNqn9Oq_3wz5cNqMM4jD8iQ