Bin Laden Found Dead?

[luckycat]

Agree with your sentiment Virago but:

You might as well blame the Athenians for forming the first democracy movement on all the failed democracies .

Wasn't that the Persians? Xerxes rings a bell.

Then you can blame Mohammad also for founding the Religion of Islam.

Well, yes, Mohammad is responsible for that. It's not that silly is it?

[araucaria]

Uh??? Irony, surely.

Nobody, I mean nobody, could be quite that stupid.

[luckycat]

Laughing out loud at Skyhooks comments...

You could have showed us that you're street by saying:

"LOLed @ Skyhook's commentz"

You'll learn.

[HKITperson]

That's a fake quote, by the way. It was written by a 24 year old American English teacher in Kobe, Japan. The third and forth sentences are King. Don't feel bad; lots of people have made that mistake since the quote went viral.

Anyway, King was a believer in the "just war" doctrine; also, I am not sure that Bin Laden qualifies as an "enemy" (one just happens to be on the wrong side) as much as someone who was a murderous psychopath who is responsible for the death of many tens of thousands of fellow mulsims. If King were here, I don't think he would have much good to say about Bin Laden.

Lessons in social media: The fake Martin Luther King Jr. quote - Yahoo! News

FT, dear oh dear!! Gone off tangent again... so what if this is a fake or not?? That is besides the point. Bryant is not conveying the merits of MLK.. but quoting a passage that speaks for all decent human beings... not plonkers or idiots such as yourself.
You may be gung ho just because in your fantasy Hollywood world, the cowboys beat the Indians.... but as human beings we look at the bigger picture.
Now, do you agree with the Quote?

[HKITperson]

Um, nope, HKIT, you specifically made that specific analogy. It is impossible to have a discussion with you precisely because your views are, shall we say, a bit foggy.

FT, Illiterate as well as dumb!
Show me which post I drew this analogy? Where did I mention Ai Wei Wei?
You are trying to distract again... aren't you... you naughty boy.....


Now, again how would you perceive the situation if China, Russia or Iran decides to take out their enemies on US soi?.

1) "it is not illegal in any way. The president has the authority to order military action, etc., etc. It was a military action"

2) if something is clearly extrajudicial (what the spooks would call "covert"), it is ever justified? In some cases, such as this one the answer should be 'yes'

3) "Murder" is a legally-defined term. He was "killed"

[luckycat]

Uh??? Irony, surely.

Nobody, I mean nobody, could be quite that stupid.

Whose comments are you referring to?

[virago]

Agree with your sentiment Virago but:



Wasn't that the Persians? Xerxes rings a bell.



Well, yes, Mohammad is responsible for that. It's not that silly is it?

Haha, yes you are right about Mohammad.

If you think Xerxes being a tyrant overthrowing Athens as a democratic society then yes I supposed so.

[gunsnroses]

Well he has a lot of chips on his shoulder! I have seen a lot of inane anti-British rhetoric from him; though that doesn't preclude the possibility of anti-American bigotry too.

Dont' we all have one chip or the other on our shoulders??
But, on balance, I find his posts are well written and well thought out, you may agree or disagree with whatever he writes, but that's besides the point.

[araucaria]

Whose comments are you referring to?

Not yours - you got in ahead of me and I was too lazy to go back and edit.

[luckycat]

Virago this is what I was talking about. No idea whether it pre-dates Athenia:

Cyrus Charter of Human Rights

Not relevant to this post. Mind you, TheBrit spouting off critiques of peoples' personalities isn't either.

There's the TheBrit that I missed! He's back after somewhat of a hiatus!