Comments on: No closure from Osama bin Laden’s death http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/ Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:00 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: luvpudders http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7394 Tue, 10 May 2011 12:42:09 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7394 People from NJ/NY were so proud of the World Trade Center and what it meant (people from all walks of life, all countries, having freedom and coming together in business/marketing). It had a huge impact on lives in the NY Metro area. We will never forget, and, sadly, I don’t believe there will ever be closure.

]]> By: Special K/Katie http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7393 Sun, 08 May 2011 02:19:20 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7393 Kevin–

I must say..thank you. This post an your comments are the closest I’ve read in this past week that related to what I feel. My mom was down there in the subway under the first tower that day…and man…was she and my family lucky. But there isn’t a minute that those emotions and thoughts of the day aren’t RIGHT THERE.

I cannot serve our nation but I certainly have tried many times…now I have future in-laws that do and I celebrated with them when this news broke.

Yes it is a man dead….and as Brian (#20) said “The world, if even just for a day, is a better place today.” But your are right…the pain is still there, in addition to the thought that it takes 2 hours (exaggeration) to get through airport security, and that there will always be someone ready, and MORE than willing to take OBLs place.

Evil exists, we know that, but if for a minute we can feel a little safer..I’ll take it.

Also…this was planned for a very very long time..and no doubt someone would have had something to say about whatever President was in office when it actually happened…

but can we please please please not forget those that protect us every day….during the big and “small” missions….they face this daily…and we sleep better because of it.

Ok….I’m done now..I swear ;-)

]]> By: jakester http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7392 Wed, 04 May 2011 18:31:27 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7392 Kev and Will, gotcha thanks for the clarifications…
and I agree there’s people that profit for terrorism, but that’s not usually the trrorists motivation, politically certainly…
Thanks again…

]]> By: Will King http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7391 Tue, 03 May 2011 19:28:03 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7391 jakester, Kevin explained me better than I could explain myself.

]]> By: Kevin Marshall http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7390 Tue, 03 May 2011 19:01:38 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7390 jakester – You’re right, but I don’t think that’s the correlation Will was going for. Rather that they are war on concepts as a whole, and as such unending. A war with a country or specific organization can achieve finality. A war on al Qaeda or a drug cartel can have an endpoint. A war on “terror” or “drugs,” not so much. That was his only point.

Though I do need to point out that there are absolutely people that profit from terror, if not financially then politically.

]]> By: akester http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7389 Tue, 03 May 2011 18:56:22 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7389 Will, some sililarities maybe, but in reality totally totally different.

Drugs are purely about money. In the war on drugs, losses are filled by others looking for riches. Drugs are fueled by users desire FOR drugs. There is no one looking to be a victim in a terror plot. The terrorist isn’t looking for riches. They’re basically sick deranged people who end up living on the run till they’re killed or captured.

]]> By: Will King http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7388 Tue, 03 May 2011 17:06:43 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7388 The war on terror is really not much different from the war on drugs, if only from the standpoint that it will never, ever end.

Bin Laden getting killed means little to me because when I think about the big picture, the whole of terror, just like the whole of drugs, will never end.

He will be replaced by another and when we (or someone else) kills him, there will be another, and another, and so on.

Bleak? Yes. Depressing? Yes. The truth? 100%

]]> By: Ellen http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7387 Tue, 03 May 2011 15:00:34 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7387 I am glad he is dead and hope he does burn in hell… at least one part of me is. Another part, a very small part, feels sad that we had to be the country, once again, to step up and take care of this and take another human life. An eye for an eye… still it’s killing someone else, deserved or not.

]]> By: Joseph Cea http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7386 Tue, 03 May 2011 01:22:41 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7386 Even if he is just a figurehead I must admit to feeling very “Un-Christian” in saying I’m happy he’s dead and I hope he burns in hell!

Of course it would have been better to lock him in a basement and let every victim of 9/11 line up at the door and have one punch at him. Then maybe a five minute break before the serious stuff starts. Naw…I changed my mind – that’s just not right – no break!

]]> By: jakester http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/05/02/bin-laden/#comment-7385 Tue, 03 May 2011 01:00:27 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=5058#comment-7385 I think it would have given a more sastifying completed feeling had Bin Laden been bought back to the US and maybe burried in a pig sty in Tenessee instead of a muslim burial at sea… he and his “people” accord no decency to any of those they’ve heniously murdered.

The world is not only full of hypocrites it’d full of BS and evil people who DESERVE more then they get, in a lot of cases an eye for an eye works for me…

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