Fidel Scorns the United States Killing of Osama

Summary

- Fidel writes essay about the U.S. killing Bin Laden
- The attack and killing were executed by the U.S. Navy SEALs
- Essay expresses Fidel's opinion that U.S. was wrong killing him
- Thinks the killing was wrong espcially in front of Bin Laden's family
- Bin Laden was unarmed but put up resistance
- One of Bin Laden's daughters was present for the killing
- Castro says that Pakistan's laws have been broken and dignity offended
- U.S. will not release photos of Bin Laden
- Castro believes American public opinion will change
- Killing may just create more hate and fear

Opinion

While Fidel does have a point about the increase of hate and vengence, I think because of bias against the Americans he fails to grasp some key points in favour of the killing of Osama. Contrary to popular belief terrorism is not a group of people bent on destorying the United States at any means necessary. Terrorism is an idea, and you cannot fight an idea with guns. To fight terrorism it must be through image, through dissuading that mentality in the first place. I think it is clear that the elimination of Osama will not eliminate terrorism, the real question is whether the assassination has had an affect on the image of terrorism.

Another point made by Castro is that it was wrong to kill Osama in front of his family. While this may be partially true in theory. The fact is that in reality there is a certain level of "human factor" that must be taken into account. Americans have been searching for this man for 10 years with no success and all of the sudden there he is, one chance to finally get him. What would you or anyone else do?

Now what must be decided to legitimize Castro's arguement is whether or not killing Osama was worth the hard feelings towards the United States. Obviously a widespread, powerful, and what seems to be well organised organisation such as Al Qaeda will have little trouble filling the void that Osama left. However there are two reasons that I can see for the U.S.'s actions. Either they believed that the assassination would leave the terrorist organisation with a tarnished reputation and would deter new recruits, or they believed this would be a spark in the "war on terror" if anyone actually believes you can be at war with an idea. If this is supposted to be a spark in the fight against Al Qaeda the U.S. had better start now before the reprocussions for killing Osama catch up with them.

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