From 9/11 to 5/1

OBL is dead. I do not rejoice in that fact. Yes, the news was welcome when it came last night, and I, like many others around the world got caught up in the hooplah, but after some twelve hours have passed since the news broke, I find myself… well, I can’t really put it into words how I feel, but it’s not elated. I wish we had been able to capture him alive, so that he could have been put on trial for his crimes against the US and the world at large. I wish that he and the others with him in the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan hadn’t hidden behind a woman, like the cowards that they were. I wish that our intelligence had been better 10 years ago, so that we could have stopped the horrific events of September 11 before they took place. Unfortunately, none of those things are true.

These will be my last words on OBL. Any further justice or mercy he may be due will be meted out by God, who is much wiser than I could ever be.