osama bin laden is dead. if you weren't already aware of that, you clearly haven't been near a tv, radio, newspaper, magazine, facebook page, or, you know, human in the past 24 hours. he's dead and people are relieved. they are rejoicing. a man was assassinated and people are rejoicing.
assassinating a man and then rejoicing. that is terrorism. if people would stop their angry posturing and swearing and just…breathe, they might remember that we are all people, we are all entitled to own opinions, and we are not all bad people who disagree with the majority. Regardless of who you are, what you think, assassination is terrorism, just from a different angle. We think we are in the right. We are in the right. But those men who followed bin laden, they thought they were too. Too often, we forget that the people we are fighting are still people.
i am relieved as well to see that a bad man is no longer. i'm relieved, but i'm conflicted. i'm anti-death penalty but i was happy last night when i heard that osama bin laden died. i was happy but then i realized that there isn't anything to be happy about. US soldiers assassinated a man who was very evil, yes, but did they take out every other person on the planet who believes the way he did? the thing about retaliation is, it just keeps going back and forth until there is nothing left.
i have nothing profound to say, nor will i pretend to. i could write at length, beautifully, about what i'm thinking and feeling but i won't because i just want to get this out of my head as quickly as possible, without thinking too much about it. he's dead and gone and that truly is a win for the good guys, i just worry that, over the past 10 years, the lines between good and evil have started to blur a little too much.
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