Like that ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ
Slightly less gay.
No. It appears that only one guy fired at the Seals. The “firefight” was very brief, and certainly didn’t last the full 40 minutes (not 45) that they were in the compound. Most of the time was spent collecting info and securing the exit.
Summation: They did their job methodically and they didn’t screw the pooch. Thanks for a successful mission.
The part of the Israeli press that has little sympathy for Muslims will obviously disapprove of contaminating the celebration with politically-inspired hand-wringing over the feelings of “those people,” much as Americans with similar attitudes do: “OK, we get it, all Muslims aren’t like Osama bin Laden – except when they are. Now, can we shut up and light off some fireworks, please?”
haha, I feel like I have been over-posting on news of Jews lately, but it comes up so much that I can’t help it.
I’m not Israeli (duh) but I have a lot of Israeli friends (which makes sense, given that we’re in a pretty in-your-business neighborhood over here). The response I found was, “Good” in a matter-of-fact way, but not overly WHOPEE! have some beers fashion.
I think Israelis are going to look at this in a different kind of light. People like ObL are just something you have to deal with.
imho, I’d think Israel would kick itself more over the decision to not assassinate Saddam Hussein.
Israel has a bigger percentage while the US has more in numbers.
I think Obama said something early on in his campaign about our loss of credibility to the rest of the world. He was not for invading Iraq. I think that with the invasion of Iraq, we began to look like we were attacking Islam – on the domestic and the international front.
eta: obama hasn’t exactly been israel’s bff
Osama is American! Check his birth-certificate, I bet you have not…
Wha? What did we do? Here in the UK I’d say the response has been very similar to the US, except without the street-party jubilation aspect. The general feeling was that he was a bad guy and no one’s going to miss him. The majority of people aren’t bothered about how he was killed, they think it was a good thing. There’s a segment of people who were concerned about the way the raid violated Pakistani sovereign territory and arguably constituted an assassination, and a lot of people thought that celebrating someone’s death in the street was unseemly, even if it’s Bin Laden, but both those opinions seemed fairly mainstream in the US as well. There wasn’t the same feeling of, “We got him!!”, but that’s to be expected given that we didn’t get him and it wasn’t the UK he attacked in the first place (although a lot of Brits did die in 9/11). One area where the response might be different overall is over Afghanistan - the majority of Brits didn’t understand why we were out there before, and they understand even less now that Bin Laden’s dead.
But overall if you want to know the British response, I’d say it roughly matches up with the liberal response in the US today, minus the initial exultant joy.
There’s only so much one can do when one’s enemies are determined to fight to the death. See Camarone Day (French Foreign Legion).