Osama bin Laden is dead

[Teddiursa of the Sky]

Originally Posted by karmachameleon

It pisses me off that someone born with that much privilege, inheriting 1/50 of a billionaire's estate and attending top schools for all of his educational life, would want to spend their life's work instilling fear into so many just because of a distaste of globalization. I'm not exuberant as most others are about his death (on an anime-character pacifism scale, where Vash the Stampede is the highest score possible, I'm somewhere right below a Kenshin Himoura), as he was nothing more than a symbol at this point, and I fear retaliation of some sort.

Seriously, all of these terrorists need to chill down, play some Okami, and watch some Cowboy Bebop. They should put positive, self-fulfilling goals ahead of selfish goals that kill and injure others around them.

Most modern terrorists are not educated in the West, which makes it all the more easy to control them, because let's be honest, when they are young the are taught to hate the West.

[Lusankya]

Originally Posted by karmachameleon

It pisses me off that someone born with that much privilege, inheriting 1/50 of a billionaire's estate and attending top schools for all of his educational life, would want to spend their life's work instilling fear into so many just because of a distaste of globalization. I'm not exuberant as most others are about his death (on an anime-character pacifism scale, where Vash the Stampede is the highest score possible, I'm somewhere right below a Kenshin Himoura), as he was nothing more than a symbol at this point, and I fear retaliation of some sort.

Seriously, all of these terrorists need to chill down, play some Okami, and watch some Cowboy Bebop. They should put positive, self-fulfilling goals ahead of selfish goals that kill and injure others around them.

Okami and Cowboy Bebop are positive and self-fulfilling?

[karmachameleon]

Originally Posted by Lusankya

Okami and Cowboy Bebop are positive and self-fulfilling?

The first sentence and second sentence in that last part were two separate statements, the first being that they need to relax more and stop being so militant, the second being that they should think of others and live more peacefully; I never said either was positive or self-fulfilling. On top of that, the examples of Okami and Bebop were not meant to be taken concretely, they were meant to be taken as a parallel for something in their culture.

[Teddiursa of the Sky]

Originally Posted by karmachameleon

The first sentence and second sentence in that last part were two separate statements, the first being that they need to relax more and stop being so militant, the second being that they should think of others and live more peacefully; I never said either was positive or self-fulfilling. On top of that, the examples of Okami and Bebop were not meant to be taken concretely, but as a parallel for something in their culture.

You are failing to understand that they will never just stop, they will always be doing what they are doing because they are taught from a very early age to spread their religion with the sword. But I am not saying this about all Muslims, only Muslim extremists.

[karmachameleon]

Originally Posted by TitaniumAnimations

You are failing to understand that they will never just stop, they will always be doing what they are doing because they are taught from a very early age to spread their religion with the sword. But I am not saying this about all Muslims, only Muslim extremists.

I never said they would stop, I said they should stop, just like how people should stop killing and hurting each other.

Obviously, anti-American, anti-globalization sentiments won't just go away, but they can be quelled somewhat; just look at the work Greg Mortenson has done for example.

[Teddiursa of the Sky]

So far, it does not seem like the anti-Western sentiment is being quelled at the least.

And I am not disagreeing with you, I am simply telling you that they won't.

[Sight of the Stars]

Originally Posted by Lusankya

Okami and Cowboy Bebop are positive and self-fulfilling?

Very, Lusy. Very. They are infinitely fulfilling.

-cough-

I'm just happy he's dead. It sounds mean to celebrate someone's death, but that's probably what he did after the Twin Towers were destroyed. The nerve...

[Kenny_C.002]

Originally Posted by TitaniumAnimations

So far, it does not seem like the anti-Western sentiment is being quelled at the least.

And I am not disagreeing with you, I am simply telling you that they won't.

Well they could be like Japan and just be all passive-aggressive about it rather than outright aggressive.

[Lusankya]

Originally Posted by Kenny_C.002

Well they could be like Japan and just be all passive-aggressive about it rather than outright aggressive.

Japan might as well have won WWII, considering we turned them into the world's second largest economy and our biggest ally on that half of the planet. They certainly got more out of it than we did. They have nothing to be aggressive about.

[Kenny_C.002]

Originally Posted by Lusankya

Japan might as well have won WWII, considering we turned them into the world's second largest economy and our biggest ally on that half of the planet. They certainly got more out of it than we did. They have nothing to be aggressive about.

Despite that, there is a sense of anti-Americanism in parts of Japan. There needs no logic in the existence that there is a passive-aggressive type of behaviour going on in parts of Japan against the US, possibly partially due to the culture that they have. It is only a statement of fact. Nothing more and nothing less.

And I disagree that the US got little in comparison to the Japanese. The US got a heck of a lot out of WWII. The strategy of throwing money at Europe to get a ton more money back through really the only existing industry in the world at that point in time was an ingenious idea. That is, the US rocketed themselves to the forefront with no other possible competition for a long time. Japan had to struggle back up after getting nuked twice and certainly its prosperity didn't come until 20 years after WWII.

[Lusankya]

Originally Posted by Kenny_C.002

Despite that, there is a sense of anti-Americanism in parts of Japan. There needs no logic in the existence that there is a passive-aggressive type of behaviour going on in parts of Japan against the US, possibly partially due to the culture that they have. It is only a statement of fact. Nothing more and nothing less.

And I disagree that the US got little in comparison to the Japanese. The US got a heck of a lot out of WWII. The strategy of throwing money at Europe to get a ton more money back through really the only existing industry in the world at that point in time was an ingenious idea. That is, the US rocketed themselves to the forefront with no other possible competition for a long time. Japan had to struggle back up after getting nuked twice and certainly its prosperity didn't come until 20 years after WWII.

Was referring specifically to the war in the Pacific, which the US didn't get much out of except showing off the nuclear bombs and giving the Navy and the Marines their day in the limelight. Had WWII not happened, Japan would likely be far worse off economically than they are today. Also, I meant that the reason they were passive-aggressive instead of aggressive was because they had little to be truly angered over. Although there will always be illogical resentment for any losers (and sometimes the winners too), I think it can be said that typically, the less justification for said resentment, the less aggression will result.

[Master Zorua]

There are very, very few people in thiis world that have ever existed that really did need to die. Osama is one of them, joining the ranks of Hitler, Stalin and Caligula.

On a lighter note, they named a drink after him. You make it with two shots and a splash of water.

[Kenny_C.002]

Originally Posted by Lusankya

Was referring specifically to the war in the Pacific, which the US didn't get much out of except showing off the nuclear bombs and giving the Navy and the Marines their day in the limelight. Had WWII not happened, Japan would likely be far worse off economically than they are today. Also, I meant that the reason they were passive-aggressive instead of aggressive was because they had little to be truly angered over. Although there will always be illogical resentment for any losers (and sometimes the winners too), I think it can be said that typically, the less justification for said resentment, the less aggression will result.

Economically speaking yes, but we also have to factor in that there are a lot of Japanese people who do truly hate America because of the bombs. We also didn't count the Japanese in American and Canada, who were placed in concentration camps. There's a lot of justified hate amongst the Japanese against US, economic boom or not.

Just look at it this way: Americans hate Osama for WTC, which killed ~3000 people. America easily did way more damage than that in Japan with two nuclear bombs, leaving those places uninhabitable for better or worse. That's a lot more dead people. I can't see how you can justify that the people in America can hate Osama while simultaneously state that Japan cannot do the same thing, when the situation in Japan was far worse off emotionally.

Seriously, if economics is what you think that matters, why should Osama hate America? America's been his economic benefactor for how many years?

[Teddiursa of the Sky]

Originally Posted by Kenny_C.002

Economically speaking yes, but we also have to factor in that there are a lot of Japanese people who do truly hate America because of the bombs. We also didn't count the Japanese in American and Canada, who were placed in concentration camps. There's a lot of justified hate amongst the Japanese against US, economic boom or not.

Just look at it this way: Americans hate Osama for WTC, which killed ~3000 people. America easily did way more damage than that in Japan with two nuclear bombs, leaving those places uninhabitable for better or worse. That's a lot more dead people. I can't see how you can justify that the people in America can hate Osama while simultaneously state that Japan cannot do the same thing, when the situation in Japan was far worse off emotionally.

Seriously, if economics is what you think that matters, why should Osama hate America? America's been his economic benefactor for how many years?

America is righteous in that sense, because you notice that when they dropped those bombs, they were at a time of war. Also keep in mind that if it took TWO, the Japanese were far too stubborn to listen to a simple army marching over Tokyo.

Lus, the Middle East has no real reason or justification to hate the West, but yet they are as aggressive as one can be.

[Kenny_C.002]

Originally Posted by TitaniumAnimations

America is righteous in that sense, because you notice that when they dropped those bombs, they were at a time of war. Also keep in mind that if it took TWO, the Japanese were far too stubborn to listen to a simple army marching over Tokyo.

There's no such thing as righteous in war. America's "righteous" in it that they won the war and nothing else. Seriously, if I dropped an atomic bomb on you and killed your entire family, I highly doubt that you would just brush it off to "war". It's naive to say that anti-Americanism doesn't exist in Japan just because you think America is righteous. At least try to put yourself in the shoes of the other guy once in a while.

The bombings were within days of each other. If you think that a surrender would come that swiftly, all you need to see is that the surrender came 9 days after the second bombing. Therefore we can conclude that the Japanese had no chance to surrender after the first bomb. Interestingly enough, Hiroshima was a deliberate place for Americans to test the devastation of the atomic bomb as it was left untouched by regular bombings that happened on the rest of Japan. That frankly is sickening.

Second, America never tried to march on the streets of Tokyo. I don't understand why they would, considering the moat around Japan in similar vain to the moat around the US. After further review, the plan was to atomic Japan a couple more times until Japan can't retaliate against a march in Operation Downfall. In essence, Japan surrendered at the first possible opportunity, which was after the two atomic bombs.