I'm not sure happily celebrating someone's death makes us any better than the person who just died for doing the same thing.
I concur. Yes - I think it's great we finally got the big bad wolf and people were extremely heroic in accomplishing this mission - but I am a little sickened by the people chanting USA USA USA in the streets and begging to see the dead lifeless body. We are so full of hate - and vengeance - and disgusting pride. We need to have compassion, understanding, education, empathy, knowledge. Isn't this the attitude that makes people dislike us as a country to begin with? We aren't finished. The fight isn't over - we don't know what sort of retaliation will result from this "victory." Is it like a hydra - we cut off one head and it sprouts two more? Or have we made the world a safer more peaceful place. I just wish we could all toast marshmellows and sing KUMBAYA and be happy! (and all magically be able to sing in six part harmony whilst doing so!)
Another friend posted this as their status - I think this is a far more appropriate way to "celebrate."
Okay switching off the news now. For my two cents, being right outside the city on 9/11, knowing people who died, people who lost loved ones, needing to turn off the ventilation system in our school because the debris from the trade center was floating over it, I feel in some sense tonight justice has been served. That being said I am not out on the streets celebrating. No one's death should be celebrated. I lit a candle on the Saddle Rock Bridge in memorial to those who died on 9/11 and in Iraq and Afghanistan since then. I hope and pray for a more enlightened future. And with that goodnight.
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