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Originally Posted by Willravel
I read an article, then I watched President Obama's speech.
I honestly don't even care at this point. Tomorrow, innocent people will be sexually assaulted at airports for absolutely no reason, prisoners will be unlawfully detained at Guantanamo and numerous other military prisons, we'll still be involved in unnecessary wars that are wasting untold human lives, phones, emails, and other electronic correspondence will be monitored without warrants, Muslims will be targeted by hate groups, and the victims of 9/11 will still be just as dead.
His death would have been more meaningful to me if we hadn't sacrificed our souls to try and get revenge on him and his ilk. It would have been more meaningful still if he hadn't so totally and completely defeated us.
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You're totally right, Will. I think I'd also feel more celebratory about justice being served had it happened ten years ago, before we wasted uncounted billions of dollars and uncounted thousands of lives on a war that had nothing to do with this guy, and let the fight that actually did have something to do with this guy go to hell in a handbasket-- not to mention using his name as an instiller of fear to justify shredding the Bill of Rights six ways from Sunday.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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