I stayed up into the wee hours last night watching throngs of US citizens, mostly college kids, celebrating our assassination of Osama bin Laden. I posted (a response) over on Facebook: I'm a little uneasy about all the US victory/happy dancing over OBL's assassination. I understand the vengeance motive and the feeling of justice being done, but from a Buddhist/karma perspective celebrating death is really begging for more trouble, as are all vendettas. After all, OBL was on his own vendetta (jihad) for previous perceived crimes by the US. Where does it end? Revenge and vendettas? Yes, bible thumpers will point to an eye-for-eye and bin Laden was literally shot in the eye, so I guess that makes the murder really rewarding. Is that enough now? No, there are many who are saddened we didn't get to put the head on a stick out on the White House lawn, or serve it up like Herod did St. John's head (on a platter.) Can we just bring the friggin' troops home and and save those Trillions of dollars for people still suffering here in the United States. Do we have to prop up Afghanistan and/or Iraq, even if they don't want us?
AND, if this assassination was done with just a handful of Special Forces guys, why on earth did we spend TEN YEARS, thousand of US lives (more than killed originally in 9/11), and all those trillions anyway? okay, done now. Revel if you must.
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PS - if you want the juvenile response just head over to Fbook where some college kid just replied "poptart fucks" whatever that means. But there are a hundred more idiotic responses there. I sadly shake my head and wonder what future we are heading toward. Maybe best if we all blow to kingdom come in 2012.
I, like you, think that the idea of vengeance and celebrating a state-sponsored assassination is insane and helps no one. Gloating over the death of any person is a tragic mistake, regardless of whether such a mission by the Seals was morally justified (and I am dubious that it was, but I don't know).
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