Two Kinds of Emotions on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
Bin Laden is dead. Do we feel a sense of relief, that this great injustice has been finally put to rest? Or do we exult in the triumph of finally nailing the guy. Our emotional response to this welcome news tells us a lot about how normally deal with loss and anger.
Don’t Pop the PimpleHuman beings are ingenious in the telling of their stories. They rattle off all sorts of calibrated situations, embellished circumstances and complicated intricately woven events which make for the enriched ‘soil to toil’ in their furtively imaginative lives. It goes with the territory of being alive. Insistence and impatience rules the roost. Like the nasty little pimple, people won’t just let it dissolve. They try to get rid of it as soon as possible.
Korea Must Become The Country of IdeasOne country Koreans often look to as a good example of how things should be done is, perhaps ironically, Japan. In the Nineteen-sixties, when the Korean economy started moving after the stagnation of the Syngman Rhee era, it wasn’t thanks to a fascination with America’s practice of free trade or the free market.
Breaking The Bin Laden StoryOsama bin Laden’s death is, for Americans and many others around the world, the biggest news since Sept. 11, 2001. So who broke the story?
And, Justice For AllOsama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted criminal, is dead. On May 1, 2011, bin Laden was shot in the head, by U.S. Navy Seals, in Abboadad, Pakistan, where he had been living in a compound. The body was clearly identified, and was DNA tested by the United States Military, and it has been proven to be that of Osama bin Laden.
America FirstThe United States cannot police the world. The nations we help are often ungrateful. Let’s look after American interests first and stop trying to end all tension, misery and war in the world.
The Plan to Capture Bin LadenWhile details of Osama bin Laden’s capture are sketchy, one thing that is clear is that the U.S. military executed a nearly flawless raid with pinpoint precision. Both strategy and tactics are reliant on good information, and to act prematurely without knowing the facts will often generate a less than desirable outcome.
Smoking Ban in SpainWhen Spain introduced a smoking ban it proved to be one of Europe’s toughest. But are Spaniards adhering to it? One restaurant owner had his premises closed down and a large fine imposed.
Following Ahmadinejad-Khamenei Rift, Khamenei Bolsters His Status As Iran’s Supreme LeaderIn the past two weeks, the Iranian media and the regime institutions have been preoccupied with the head-on collision between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the firing of Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi. The following article discusses this rift.
The Crisis In Japan Watched Worldwide Through HD News FootageOn March 11th, the entire country of Japan was the subject of anxiously viewed HD news footage by many people across the globe. Millions watched as the aftermath of a massive earthquake off the coast led to a deadly tsunami which threatened to wipe portions of northern Japan entirely off the map.