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The pacifist must also worry that if indeed the extermination of a top- of- the mind recall brand (what does this phrase mean?) in terrorism justifies beastly concepts like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Indeed, if India carried out a similar attack on Karachi to ferret out (to force out of hiding) or kill Dawood Ibrahim or the LeT chief Haafiz Saeed – people figuring (to be or appear important or conspicuous) prominently on India’s wanted list-what can a self styled (as claimed by and for yourself often without justification) peace-arbiter (judge) like the US say? That the two countries are nuclear neighbors and therefore must not fight? That only the US knows when to strike and what to strike? Barak Obama may have bought himself a second lease to his presidency, but that country’s moral stature-such as it is- (what does this mean 'moral stature such as it is'?) has taken a blow with this rather expedient, war-like act.

It all depends on how successfully you can carry out a strike. But he is certainly saying that the US has set a precedent in South Asia, and from now on, the concept of national sovereignty, a suspect concept in the best of times (when everything is going fine), is emphatically subservient to the national security of the US. This writer is not defending Osama or his actions.

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But nowhere is it written that a terrorist be deprived of his human rights that he has a right to stand trial and defend himself. You could of course say Osama was a terrorist. You wouldn’t like it if China carried out a similar operation in Dharmasala and cleaned out the Tibetan chiefs. In short, Osama had done enough to invite vengeance.įorget the fact that the operation was tantamount (equivalent) to declaring a unilateral war: the virtual (near enough) annexation of Abbottabad. Osama changed the idea of privacy as the US was given to believe, he changed the way people traveled, behaved. Perhaps, most damaging of all, he created a fear psychosis (derangement of mind) in the ordinary US citizen, arguably (which can be shown by argument) the most freedom loving individual in the world, who now willingly strips (to take off one's clothes) in most public spaces in the name of security. He turned Afghanistan into an interminable nightmare for the West, and trapped the US clueless (Is 'clueless' an adverb here modifying 'trapped'?) within its hills. Not even Hitler could bomb New York or the Pentagon.

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No other man had succeeded like Osama did (for clarity 'succeed' has been omitted otherwise it would be 'did succeed') to inflict humiliating and mind altering (affecting the mind or behavior) trauma on the US and its people in full view of (in front of) the world. Seemingly (as it looks), they had every right to, of course. The US was exacting vengeance, not administering justice. Osama bites bullet, pacifist dust (what does the title mean?)The Abbottobad operation and the killing of Osama bin Laden could be seen as a blow (shock) to pacifism. Thank you very much for your time and help.

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Another phrase for biting the bullet