The land of the blind

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I have very mixed feelings on the death of Osama Bin Laden.
I am certainly not trying to defend him in any way.
But, that doesn’t make me happy about things either.

To some extent I begrudge him being able to go down fighting.  I know any
attempt to put him on trial would have been a circus in the worst way.  I
don’t think there could even be an idea of a fair trial or an agreement on
what a fair trial would be.
While  I still would have liked to see that I know that it would be almost
impossible to do.

I honestly can’t think of a better way to have dealt with him.
And, that bothers me.
As Gandhi said “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
The land of the blind is not my first choice for home.

One of my friends growing up was killed by terrorists.  Blown up by a
suicide bomber.
I used to fly on one of the flights hijacked on 9/11 several times a year.
Often on a Tuesday as it was then.
When I was young, my father took me to New York City and we watched them
building the trade centers.
My uncle used to work in the Pentagon and took me on a tour of it once when
I was young.
I have cousins who live and work in NYC, one in the financial district.
I drove past NYC 4 days before the attack and remember seeing the trade
center towers standing there.  I drove past it again a few weeks later and
the lack of those towers was very obvious.

So, I understand.

But, I wish there was a better way.
And I’m sad I can’t even seem to imagine one.

Comments

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

Yes, this. I've been mulling the whole thing over and I just can't come up with anything other...on ANY aspect of it.

It doesn't matter that they buried him at sea, the fact that he died fighting still leaves him open to being used as a martyr. And honestly, WHERE would he have been tried?

I do honestly believe that at the core you can't fight terrorism with war. I don't have a clue what one DOES do, I just know that one feeds the other feeds the one feeds the...and on and on and...