This neither bothers me, nor is it a surprise.
Did we cheer when we caught Saddam?
Did we cheer when we killed his two idiot sons?
Did we cheer when Osama was killed?
It is normal in a war for the opposing side to cheer when they achieve something they think is notable.
I don’t condone it. But, lets not get all worked up about it either.
This neither bothers me, nor is it a surprise.
“Did we cheer when we caught Saddam?
Did we cheer when we killed his two idiot sons?
Did we cheer when Osama was killed?
It is normal in a war for the opposing side to cheer when they achieve something they think is notable.
I don’t condone it. But, lets not get all worked up about it either.”
I think what you are missing is that there is a difference in cheering achievement of military objectives such as the capture or death of enemies as you cite and abject terrorism with a focused objective to purposefully kill innocent civilians whether they be women or children. No civilized society cheers that kind of civilian terror.
Please explain.
Surely you’re not equating cheering the demise of Bin Laden etc. with the intentional murder of civilians?
I recall after the bodies of the killers at Munich were released to Libya, they were given a hero’s welcome.
I dont think thats the point...
The point is we are led to believe that the majority of “adherents” are not for terrorism. This dispels that myth.
Not a surprise, either. But the perversity of it is bothersome. They are cheering that which would cause normal people to bend their heads in shame. It’s like Americans cheering the My Lai massacre, or Sand Creek, saying ‘hooray for Col. Chivingston, may he brain Cheyenne infants with pride’. And beating his Jewish wife for being handy and Jewish is beyond low. When I hear confirmation of their lowness, I reach for my helicopter and white P. grenades, and am only deterred from using them by the fact that they don’t exist.
“I don’t condone it. But, lets not get all worked up about it either.”
Yes, it proves they are the enemy and not misrepresented by the terrorists.
There’s a little difference between fighting between terrorists and a uniformed military and attacks on innocent civilians by murderous whacknuts in the cult of islam.