Europe Op-Ed: US Celebrations Over bin Laden Demise 'Leave a Bitter Taste'

This from an Irish paper, the Independent. It follows an overall trajectory in which the moral relativists in Europe are hand-wringing over the death of bin Laden. Even more so, there appears to be a sense of disgust against American celebrations over bin Laden's brain plastering.

So to the editorial:

Fireworks in Los Angeles and street celebrations in other US cities over an assassination? Not just primitive, but foolishly incendiary. The same applies to the 'New York Daily Post' with its front page composed of just three words: "Rot in hell!"

Jingoistic Americans are posting dangerous comments online. Readers of the 'Los Angeles Times' have contributed the following nuggets of diplomacy on its website: "We should have smeared his body with pig fat before feeding it to cockroaches"; "I just wish we had a body to urinate on"; and "I would love to drag his stinking corpse through the streets of New York".

Dangerous comments? Does this mean that those commenters should be more 'sensitive'? Or are these comments as dangerous as a man that carried through on the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians?

Of course, we have this piece of enlightened thought:

Bin Laden came to represent the bogeyman incarnate to Americans. But he still deserved to be brought to trial.

Or to show that 'real' Americans-- those on the Left are also also revolted by the joyous celebrations:

Street celebrations in Washington and New York have been described as a spontaneous torrent of patriotism, but they could be interpreted as something rather more hysterical. I'm sure many more reflective Americans cringed at those images but a damaging message has gone across the world.

Europe, show some appreciation for the US military that protects you virtually for free while you bitch.

To show their common sense since the Second World War. This is from 1986:

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