Is The World Safer?
Certainly, bin Laden had it coming. I’m not ashamed to write that I’m glad he’s dead — but it’s got nothing to do with the world being safer. (I don’t know whether that’s even true.) Rather, it’s got everything to do with vengeance.
Obama also said “justice has been served”, but I don’t know if I agree with that. I don’t know what justice would even look like in this case. How do you justly punish someone who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people? Torture him to a point of near death and then revive him over and over and over? Is that justice?
Or would that make us just as monstrous as the person we were punishing?
Obama: ‘The world is safer . . . becau – The Washington Post.
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