Reply #88: If this had happened under Bush, you would be saying the same thing Sirota is.

[alarimer]

I hate, hate, hate, flag-waving and rah-rah USA whether it is at the Olympics, a hockey game, or when we blow someone or something up. It is unseemly and rather disgusting no matter what. We like killing, that's for sure.

Besides which, despite the fact that Obama killed Osama (well, not personally but you know what I mean), Osama has actually won. We have given up rights and personal freedom in the name of security. We now commit acts of terror (drones, etc). We have killed many, many thousands more than Osama could ever hope to. We have displaced millions from their homes in Iraq and Afghanistan. We torture and hold people in indefinite, illegal detention for no good reason. One dead terrorist more or less is not going to change anything. It certainly isn't going to bring all those dead people back. What is should do (but probably won't) is cause an immediate end to all our ongoing wars. They are bullshit now.