I knew no one affected personally by 9-11. And I admit that I am not energized very much by the death of bin Laden. I am skeptical because of the quick burial at sea and the lack of definitive evidence. I don’t trust zer0 as far as I can throw the Trump towers.
I treasure and applaud the military and for their sake I trust in their mission but want to verify it. I want bin Laden to be dead and I want to celebrate the victory which is theirs and NOT 0bama’s.
I want what you want. I want to rejoice.
But I can’t. The timing and the politics of the day seems to be too overwhelming.
I don’t know why.
I live and work in downtown DC, and felt 9/11 very keenly. I recall vividly reading on FR that Tuesday AM, about the towers being hit, then the Pentagon, and just leaving my ofc and fleeing to retrieve my 3 kids from their elementary school in VA. Sunday PM, the Caps had just lost a close playoff game, and i read that Obama wanted to speak at 10:30 pm and they were saying that bin Laden was dead. i wanted to be happy. i was nonplussed and wary. i wanted to feel patriotic and jubilant. but i just didn’t have it in me. i am suspicious of everything that this president says and does because i know he is totally self-serving. it is not a good feeling to want to be happy about it and yet not be able to muster the feelings.
We now have to question EVERY word that comes out of his lips!
HE has turned us into the doubting Thomases that we are. And I agree, it has robbed us of the SHEER JOY that we should be feeling right now that OBL is dead.