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Does anyone else see fiction acted out in real life with the chain of events of the killing of Osma Bin Laden? Upon the first revealing of the information, Seal Team 6 is hailed as the valiant heroes living thru a 40 minute fire fight to save us all from the evil Bin Laden. Disney moves quickly to get marketing rights to "Seal Team 6" In only takes weeks for the people to learn more and start to second guess the method of their salvation. "What? He was unarmed? They just came in and shot everyone?" Suddenly, the mass perception begins to change as the method of salvation seems to make the event far less heroic. Do not get me wrong, they are still heroes to me, just as Ender remained a hero to me for greasing the Buggers despite his internal conflict on the subject but I was amazed as to how fickle the opinion of the masses has become.
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It's a scenario that plays out all the time, both in reality and in fiction. Kind of strange you saw the parallels with Ender, but I can see your point.
I guess because of how the media works it's hard to be entirely good anymore. If you really think about it, every situation can be turned on its head, no matter how great it seems at first. Even if God came back and Jesus gave away candy to everyone, the someone would spin it negatively. "Candy?" They'd say. "Jesus wants to give us all caveties! He's trying to kill us all!"
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It just does my heart good as a Navy Veteran to hear the media taking the bait and dropping the buzzword "SEAL Team 6" at every corner...considering SEAL Team 6 doesn't exist.
It sounds so super secret and spooky because of the alliteration. But it doesn't exist. It was a real world SEAL Team that was decomissioned before 1990. No one in the media does now, nor will ever know what happened in that firefight/non-firefight, if SEALs were involved.
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