This does not fill me with elation.
I feel like this shouldn’t be,
A cause for celebration.
And yet I know it is,
For those who lost a loved one,
Are thrilled that he is long gone.
And naturally they should be.
But I don’t feel very happy,
And I do not feel vindictive.
I kind of wish I did,
But I merely feel conflicted.
Tag Archives: conflicted
WOTD: conflicted
Today’s word is a feeling, one that I think a lot of us are experiencing concerning the death of Osama bin Laden. To feel conflicted is to be full of conflicting and often contradictory emotions or impulses.
Upon hearing that Osama bin Laden, FBI’s number one most wanted bad guy, the one responsible for the atrocities of September 11, 2001, the July 7, 2005 bombings in London (among others) had been killed in a surgical military operation, well, one can’t help but jump for joy and shout, “YESSSS!!!!!!”
But wait, is that really an appropriate response? I mean, should one be filled with joy over the death of a fellow human being? Even one with such a defiantly uncompromising and completely distorted view of reality? Evil or not, he was still a man, who unfailingly believed he was doing God/Allah’s work by ridding the world of the oppressive infidels. Just like Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden hid himself away, and he held on to his misguided convictions until the very end. And like Hitler, he would rather die than be captured by the enemy. And thus he did.
The fate of Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly a fate he wished to avoid at all costs.
Random Misanthrope 