# The American Public is Fucking Gruesome

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 3, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-public-is-fucking-gruesome/580550 "2011-05-03T05:58:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-public-is-fucking-gruesome/580550/146 "2011-05-04T04:42:34Z")

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> [@colonial](#):
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> Worried? _Worried_?
> 
> I think the kid should get extra credit, and the only thing I am worried about  
> is jerkweasels like you discouraging him and others like him from wanting to  
> be Seals and kill terrorists when they grow up.

Gaahhh, I posted this in the wrong thread originally.

> [@Osama bin Laden is Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/580437/273):
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> WTF are you talking about? Did I miss a post or something?

Oops…too many bin Laden threads. :smack:

> [@Osama bin Laden is Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/580437/276):
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> i believe that was to be in the pit thread. it does seem to come out of nowhere, but it appears that a child in the school that judah attends did a lego diarama of the seal operation.

:smack:

> [@Osama bin Laden is Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/580437/277):
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> I think the kid should get extra credit, and the only thing I am worried about  
> is people like you discouraging him and others like him from wanting to be  
> Seals and kill terrorists when they grow up.

I don’t think Americans cheering is the same as Palestinians cheering after 9/11, but we are talking about CHILDREN!

:dubious: You are kidding, right? How is [this](http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/228510_733665751212_42111580_37836278_171942_n.jpg) so much different than [this](http://www.onejerusalem.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/palestinian-child.jpg)?

Um, my son has an IDF kippah and I’m on the cmte to help celebrate Israel Independence Day. I’m not a weenie when it comes to foreign policy and I’d be supportive if he wanted to join the military, though it doesn’t really seem to fit his personality.

HOWEVER. I do like to set a certain standard of \*decency \*for my six year old. He’s too young to understand (or to have experienced) what terrorism means to modern warfare. Maybe I’m a liberal weenie because I don’t dress him up and rage about dem dayum towelheads in the middle east. :o

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