Osama Bin Laden is dead, I'm not writing about the royal wedding. It ain't happening.
The whole affair raises far more questions than answers. Osama Bin Laden is dead very little has changed.
Is this a victory for freedom? A bitter defeat to humanists because a world power government actually killed a scumbag for once? What happens to the Global War on Terrorism? What are we going to call the nasty things we do with missles now? Why are we all celebrating a death like we just won the world cup (I didn't like the guy any more than anybody else, but I'm not up for celebrating deaths via predator missile).
I have all these questions because I'm sitting in pocket of time entirely alien to the modern world. A pocket in which I have not yet been told what to think. I intend to take full advantage.
Is this a victory for freedom?
No, not really. But it probably makes free people feel a little warmer and fuzzier I suppose.
A bitter defeat to humanists because a world power government actually killed a scumbag for once?
Nope. We've done that before, and I seem to remember the U.S. using the grace period swelling out of such an accomplishment to annhilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Humanists never win or lose because people will never be nice. That is the irony of it all.
What happens to the Global War on Terrorism?
as a proper noun, its media attention dries up and it fizzles like that $5 firework you were sure was going to blow up your cat. As a general idea, it continues on without our consent or our support.
What are we going to call the nasty things we do with missles now?
I'm sure we'll think of something. we haven't used "police action" in a while, it could be due for a comeback.
Why are we all celebrating (etc.)?
Because a very nasty man won't hurt anyone else. and because 10 years after the crisis, after the sorrow and the pain and the answers that we never really believed, we're still all looking for just the littlest bit of closure.
If life was simple, everyone would be able to do it.
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