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| h/t Josh Pesavento |
Still, I'm ambivalent about celebrating death. I understand. We've been through such a sustained period of darkness: unemployment; wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya; natural disasters. We needed something to celebrate. But, as @2tuffdc tweeted yesterday:
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King Jr."
[apparently, this quote comes not from Dr. King, but instead from Jessica Dovey and Penn Jillette. Regardless, I agree with the sentiment.]
Then I think about the faces of the cheering crowds on May 2nd. Mostly kids, young adults. People that were maybe ten years old on 9/11. Young people who've lived with the spectre of Bin Laden looming over them for half their lives. Killing the boogey man must feel good. Sphere: Related Content
3 comments:
i've been saying this a lot lately, but i really feel like sunday night was a national catharsis. it was a giant dump-off of emotion. hell, i went through about 26 emotions in the course of that speech. i settled on three things:
1) i am glad his evil's out of this world. i feel that OBL lost his human-race license when he killed all those people, and not just americans on 9/11.
2) this is a milestone in a long process. we're far from out of the woods on the war against those who hate egalitarianism and modernity.
3) barack obama is the biggest bad-ass ever. hell, he not only did the WHCD while he knew what was happening, he cut into trump's show to tell the world that we got OBL. that, my friends, is the work of a bad, bad man.
No doubt Mags. I understand where it's coming from and I'm not going to go so far as saying that anyone was wrong for cheering the success of the mission or the end of Bin Laden. But I didn't feel that way and seeing the images on tv of these cheering kids struck me as sort of strange. I won't lie and say I didn't feel good about what seems like a chapter closing, but cheering? I don't know... strange times
I don't think I was elated over his death, per se, as much as the symbolism over his actions. He (Osama) chose his manner of death, for the most part, when he started his reign of terror.
There was a message sent to his minions in the manner in which he died. I would imagine that his followers aren't sleeping quite as well as they had been.
~shoes~
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