Oh yay, I don’t really have to say it after all
Awesome author and thinker Cat Valente takes care of writing The Osama Is Dead Post for me.
The long-and-short-of-it:
Well, I don't know. Seems like one more corpse on the pile to me. Sorry, but this war, this decade of war has made me cynical. It's made me not believe in just government on any level, and made me wary and gunshy of my fellow citizens' glee. If we're dancing in the streets either the Lakers won or someone's dead. I was told immediately after posting that it felt like a Pyrrhic victory to me, and tasted like ash, that I was in the minority and that for ALL servicemen and their families, ALL 9/11 and rescue workers families this is joy and closure and relief.
(The rest of her post is totally worth reading too. As are all the other ones.)
Well, I'm in that minority too. Yaaay, after killing thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians, torturing others on both sides, and shooting our civil rights in the face at sunrise, we've finally killed the one guy we were most publicly mad at. Gee, good for us. I'm also completely in agreement with my netfriend en_ki:
I would like to hear that we are a strong, free country again; that the nation of cowards who, in the face of this man and a tiny gang of thugs like him, threw out the rule of law and begged our secret police to save us, to snoop and grope and torture and murder with impunity, was some other people in some other time.
Politically, unless this deflates the crazy power-bubble our own government has used the war to build against its own people, I can't really see it doing much good…the people we're fighting in the Middle East haven't been followers of bin Laden for a long time; mostly they're just people who want us to put our guns away and go the eff home. They'll probably calm down when we do so, and not really before. (And would you, if there were tanks in your streets?) I guess the American democrats might gain some bragging-rights, but considering who with and how awful they generally are at controlling messages, I bet that's a wash at the end of the day too.
…Also, just as a philosophical point, can I say that throwing parties because you killed someone is really creepy?
The End. ;)
Originally published at *Transcendental *Logic. You can comment here or there.