Does bin Laden's Death Bring Justice?
U.S.military forces hunted down and killed the terrorist whose World Trade Center attack almost 10 years ago killed thousands.
Osama bin Laden is dead at the hands of U.S. military forces in Pakistan.
The news of the death of the terrorist whose World Trade Center attack killed 3,000 Americans greeted most of us late last night and early this morning.
How did you react to this announcement? And President Obama’s late-night proclamation that justice has finally been done?
Do you feel safer now than at any point since the attack on Sept. 11, 2001? Or has nothing really changed that much?
What did you tell your children about an attack that reportedly was set up to kill him not capture him? Should we bring all international terrorists to justice the same way?
Barrington Patch would like to know what you think. We think your neighbors would too. We welcome your comments on our homepage activity stream or as a comment at the end of this article. Or send your reaction as an email to William.rupp@patch.com. We’ll fit it into a column or a follow-up story.
See a complete story on Osama bin Laden's death here at the Huffington Post.
Esther Trneny
1:35 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
I don't know that any of us are any safer than we have been over the last 10 years, but I do feel that justice has been served. I won't be burning flags or dancing in the streets, but I'm pretty darn pleased that he's dead. I told my younger kids that a bad man who hurt a lot of people was killed by the military because he wouldn't give himself up and go to jail. My husband and I will probably talk with the older two about what justice means, and why it was a reasonable thing for the military to look for him for almost ten years, and ultimately to kill him. I don't think he deserved mercy. A lot of people on FB are talking about the futility of "eye for an eye", but I see it as two eyes for six thousand. There is more than likely someone waiting to take his place, but this sociopathic, selfish, egomaniac has at last been removed from this world.
Kathryne Tirrell
3:15 pm on Monday, May 2, 2011
The version I heard on The View, by ABC News Correspondent Brian Ross was that they went in and said, "Surrender, surrender," to bin Laden but he would not surrender, so they shot him. If they gave him a chance to surrender, that means they didn't set out to kill him.
Gabi
6:36 am on Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Interesting and very legitimate questions. I blogged about my take on the subject yesterday: http://bluetwothree.blogspot.com/2011/05/on-abbottabad.html