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Originally Posted by empirestrikesfirst
Let me preface this by saying I am not American and I lost no family or loved ones in the terrible attacks on September 11th, 2001, so I have an obviously different view than others may.
However, it troubles me seeing how much joy and how much nationalism is shown over the death of one man. I understand he was the implicated leader of one of the largest terrorist cells in the world, and most likely the mastermind behind many atrocious attacks on innocent people.
Breaking into chants of, "USA, USA!" over the death of a man, as evil as he may have been, is simply wrong to me. If you needed to see this man expire to gain closure, so be it. Who am I to judge or dictate how a person deals with the passing of friends and family, or grief in general. But this nationalistic fervor is almost appalling to me.
You're not American, that sums it up.
The man was a leader of a movement that killed 3,000 innoncent Americans in one morning. He then evaded capture, launched other attacks and boasted about his acts and his commitment to carrying out similar attacks.
You can say it's appauling all you want but as Americans this is closure to many. Our nation was attacked, we felt threatened, scared and uncertain of what would happen next. If given the ability to carry out a much large attack, they would have. That's why people are happy is dead, he got what he deserved.