Yay.
Excuse me for not being overly excited. Does this mean the United States troops are coming home? Probably not.
Plus it only took 10 years or more – really how many years was this asshole out in the world terrorizing people before 9/11? Yeah…
How many more are like him out there, ready to jump in his place? I read a headline somewhere that killing bin Laden was like chopping the head off a snake – the snake still moves. I could not help but to think of the mythical Hydra – every time Hercules cut one of his snake heads off, two grew back in its place.
Don’t get me wrong I am glad he is dead, glad ‘we’ finally got him but its not rockin’ my world and you aren’t going to see me partying it up today. Sorry to be such a negative Nancy.
My thanks to all the troops and intelligence agents involved in his capture and I hope they are getting a well deserved celebration and commendations.
I am glad the United States is having a happy day today but for me I can’t help but to think of all the lives lost because of this nut job, chasing this nut job plus all the dollars spent chasing after him or the so called ‘weapons of mass destruction’ not to mention rebuilding infrastructure in other countries while our own crumbles. As I write now I find myself asking the question “What has chasing after bin Laden and finally killing him really gotten us?”
Then I see my local newspaper running a story about tenuous connections to 9/11 and fighting bin Laden. So is that it? We finally earned some relief and perhaps the right to feel pride and pat ourselves on the back because we were moved by that day or because of some small connection to that day, to people who actually served, some giving up their very lives… This all makes me kind of angry and sad.
Sure its great he is gone but there is much work still to be done and many more lessons to be learned that perhaps should have been learned a long time past.
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