Killing Evil Doesn’t Make Us Evil - Maureen Dowd
Killing Evil Doesn’t Make Us Evil
By Maureen Dowd
Published: May 7, 2011
An excellent assessment by Maureen Dowd regarding the rhetorical aftermath following the death of terrorist and mass murderer Osama bin Laden.
I don’t want closure. There is no closure after tragedy.
I want memory, and justice, and revenge.
When you’re dealing with a mass murderer who bragged about incinerating thousands of Americans and planned to kill countless more, that seems like the only civilized and morally sound response.
We briefly celebrated one of the few clear-cut military victories we’ve had in a long time, a win that made us feel like Americans again — smart and strong and capable of finding our enemies and striking back at them without getting trapped in multitrillion-dollar Groundhog Day occupations.
But within days, Naval Seal-gazing shifted to navel-gazing.