[onyx]

You wrote;

"FR folks are always, ALWAYS proud of our courageous, patriotic military personnel, even as we despise the lying bastard in the oval office. That the bastard sought to exploit our pride in our military is yet another layer of this anti-american commie administration."

Precisely.

Question? Why are the media running *polls* to see if this helped his approval ratings?

[little jeremiah]

Very good point!!!!!!!!!!! (a hundred more !!)

[rlmorel]

One of the issues I have, and this is personal, that I did not in any way feel joyous.

I can’t.

I take satisfaction that OBL is dead, but this whole business, from beginning to end, is not something I can bring myself to whoop at. It just isn’t me.

This is grim. Not to say I haven’t found certain grains of humor during this time, but when I found out, all I could muster was: “Good. That’s done.” Was it a “Good thing”? Without any doubt whatsoever. Would I have felt like singing if I were in a crowd? I doubt it.

I have thought a lot about this over the last few days. As a Christian, I struggle with the concept of forgiveness. Many times over the last decade, I have thought to myself: “If presented with the situation, could I forgive someone like Bin Laden for what he has done? Could I do that?”

The obvious answer (to me, at least) is, that forgiveness is not mine to give. But even putting that aside, lest anyone think I have gone soft, I don’t think that it is impossible to forgive someone, but fully expect they bear responsibility and pay in full for their actions, up to and including the forfeit of their life. I am a unshakable supporter of the Death Penalty.

But I know the Bin Laden is now facing his maker, and it isn’t the one that dangles the 72 virgins in front of him.

And that fills me with a grim satisfaction.