Little Guy, congratulations on the grand unveiling of your lack of knowledge and for being thoroughly reactionary. Your use of 'european leftists' as a derogative term of proves straight off that you know little about politics. I also notice you completely missed my point about the lockerbie bombing, possibly because you dont know what it was. yet you inevitably wheeled onto stage the examples of 911 and the madrid bombings, ommitting reference to the london and lockerbie bombings. my point showed that the Americans are not the only citizens of the world to have suffered personally. That the world trade centres were destroyed? That itself was not the tradegy, the tragedy was loss of life, a loss of life which happens all over the world every day, without the US batting en eyelid. so Why chant USA in front of the white house? What message is being sent? they seem to think the battle is simply the USA against radical islam, a pure us versus them mentality when really the cause is much wider than that. Americans all too frequently have little awareness of what goes on in the world until it arrives on their doorstep. Incidentally, little guy, you think the death of bin laden is a victory OVER Islam?
I dont want to get into debates over war, but do you really think all wars started by western governments have been for the right principles? why did america not interfere in various other countries experiencing severe human rights crises; uganda, tanzania, even russia and china. There is nothing altruistic about the wars started by the west. they are very often interest based - *oil* . But I notice you felt the need to defend Obamas decision to go to war when noone had really attacked it. I am not against controlled UN involvement, despite being a 'european leftist'. But I want to know that when we fight wars we are there for the right reasons. I think that often people, and not just americans, dont understand the right reasons, they just want to react to personal problems. I am not saying Americans shouldnt celebrate the moment, but that there is something odd about celebrating in such a way. Perhaps sometihng to do with americans adoration for their history, a history they have readily left behidn by their own disregard for human rights.
I honestly cant believe some of the emotive points you are trying to make. by posting a link to a 911 video? I donate money per month to amnesty international, me and my family all work in the charity sector, and I do that with pride because i believe in the importance of basic human rights, such as those that many states all over america have no respect for. Please, do not reel out these tired old arguments for why i shouldnt question such an odd expression of 'joy'.