Really? Maybe not
enjoying to kill, on this I would agree, but being relieved to have taken out a threat, a murderous mass murder planning new mass killings, without own casualties - what is wrong with that? It's like being relieved to have had an accident but nobody got hurt. Killing the likes of Bin Laden - for sure
is a solution. And a very solid one. This is a war against religious fanatics whose preferred and primary weapon is terrorism and mass murder. We must not and we shall not regret their miserable endings. If we should have compassion, than for their victims - but that compassion is worthless if it does not motivate us to set up a determined fight against those wanting to create even more terror victims, in oder to prevent them from realising their wishes, and to take them out.
To make one thing clear once again, Merkel did not say nor meant nor expressed that she took delight from the fact of the killing itself. What she meant and by standards of German language expressed is that the was delighted by the fact that by taking out Bin Laden there is no more thread and danger projected by this man.
It needs the intention of wanting to misunderstand her words in order to describe her as dancing on the table when Bin Laden suffered death. Relief over an operation ending well, and a mass murderer beign taken out and no longer being a threat. Can't we even be relieved anymore over such an obvious thing without being demanded to endlessly relativise the criminal role of this murderer? A German radio station referred to the operation as the "killing of a 57 year old family father in Pakistan".
And another became indigant over "that BL was surprised in his sleep". Such shamelessness leaves me speechless. I assume we should have send two police officers in proper formal dress, knocking at the door and handing over a writen note that he is to be arrested at 10:30 and that he please should pack some things and cloathings and then wait by the side of the street in front of his house to be picked up.
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Es ist eine wunderbare Gelegenheit, den Amis das Wesen von Barbarei und Zivilisation zu erklären, den Unterschied von Rechtsstaat und Wildem Westen. Es den Cowboys und den Kulturbanausen da drüben heimzuzahlen für die Schmach von 45, die Entnazifizierung, die Umerziehung, für Hollywood, Mickey Mouse und Fast Food am Drive-in-Counter. Die sollen sich nicht so anstellen, die Amis, was sind schon 3000 Tote gegen die Verbrechen des Imperialismus? Oder auch nur die Verkehrstoten eines Jahres auf den Highways?
Allesversteher, die Selbstmordattentätern zugutehalten, dass sie gar nicht anders können, als sich in Zügen und Cafés in die Luft zu sprengen, ziehen plötzlich das Fünfte Gebot aus dem Kulturbeutel: Du sollst nicht töten! Eine gute Idee, die leider im asymmetrischen Krieg ein wenig gelitten hat.
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If you can, read the German article I just linked above. I see you are in Germany, so most likely you speak German. Plenty of press quotes in there that illustrate how insane - or simply stupid? - people are over here.