His death will not bring your freedoms back to life. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web. www.freedomainradio.com Sources www.fdrurl.com So bin Laden has apparently been killed, and this is cause for mass celebrations, perhaps because people believe that the cycle of evil will end with this murder. But governments don't solve the problem of evil, because governments always need an enemy to scare you with -- the Kaiser, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, drug dealers, terrorists, and so on and on. But who is the enemy? The death toll from American imperialism: more than 27000000 million people slaughtered worldwide. Well, I guess 27000000 and one will make everything better now. Even if we say that bin Laden needed to be captured or killed -- just look at the facts: It took the US government 10 years, 2 wars, almost a million deaths, and over $1.1 trillion (interest and inflation not included) to kill one person. This is the same person that the US trained, funded and armed to fight the Soviets in the 1980s. The same person that the Taliban offered to hand over almost a year before 9/11, as long as the US government provided objective evidence linking him to terrorism -- which the US failed to do, even after the Taliban warned Washington that bin Laden was going to strike the US. After 9/11, the Taliban again offered to turn over bin Laden to a neutral country or the Court of Justice in The Hague, even without evidence. This offer <b>...</b>
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