# Something very big has just happened **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534 "2019-10-27T02:27:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/21 "2019-10-27T14:22:48Z")
He seems to think that he’s finally earned his (bone) spurs. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/22 "2019-10-27T14:31:17Z")
Yet again, Trump snatches bumbling rhetoric from the jaws of victory: “It was like watching a movie!”. In typical fashion, the leaden tongued buffoon displays mastery of bombastic self-promotion, useless superlatives and irrelevant tangents. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/23 "2019-10-27T14:51:56Z")
Other that giving their approval to take the target out, I never thought the President should get much adulation for the military leadership presumably planning a mission to kill a military target and the troops on the ground for taking them out, I mean I didn’t give Obama much of any credit for Bin Laden and I don’t give Trump any credit for this, it just happened on their watch. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/24 "2019-10-27T15:39:39Z")
Why did it take so long? When he was running didn’t he say something to the effect that he was smarter than all the generals put together and could defeat ISIS in 30 days? ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/25 "2019-10-27T16:08:11Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > He was far too busy taking calls from big men who were in tears saying “Sir, Mr. President Trump sir, thank you for saving our Country, we never thought two years and nine months ago that a president could ever do so much for us as you have”. _prolonged and vigorous retching_ ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/26 "2019-10-27T16:53:48Z")
This is good news. It really is. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/27 "2019-10-27T19:12:50Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > This is good news. It really is. He’s just another in large population of murderous assholes. His death will barely cause a ripple in the organization. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/28 "2019-10-27T20:39:24Z")
I’m impressed that for once, when Trump said he had a big announcement to make, that it actually was something substantial. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/29 "2019-10-27T20:54:35Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > He’s just another in large population of murderous assholes. His death will barely cause a ripple in the organization. He’s a martyr now. This will result in multiple retaliatory attempts by the various ISIS cells. The next few weeks/months are going to see sharp rise terrorist related activity. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/30 "2019-10-27T20:59:41Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > He’s a martyr now. This will result in multiple retaliatory attempts by the various ISIS cells. The next few weeks/months are going to see sharp rise terrorist related activity. The death of bin Laden, as I recall, didn’t lead to any particular uptick in al-Qaeda activity, so there’s a decent chance this won’t lead to ISIS doing anything it wasn’t going to do anyway. At any rate, no one in their right mind would pass up an opportunity to kill Baghdadi just because it _might_ lead to reprisals. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/31 "2019-10-27T21:06:57Z")
Oh, no question, and good riddance to the monster. I just think the result will be more significant than a mere ripple within the organization. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/32 "2019-10-27T21:33:13Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > He’s a martyr now. This will result in multiple retaliatory attempts by the various ISIS cells. The next few weeks/months are going to see sharp rise terrorist related activity. What are they gonna do start chopping the head off people? ---
**Author:** ![SOJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SOJA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SOJA)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534/33 "2019-10-27T23:16:59Z")
The same Al Baghdadi who was killed nine or ten times before this? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-very-big-has-just-happened/842534.md?page=1)