Here There and Everywhere

Dancing on Graves?

I trust that it all happened exactly as it should. Don’t we all believe God is in control?

Friends and family are asking me why I have been silent about the raid, capture and execution of Osama Bin Laden.

9/11 and the celebrations televised around the world were equally horrifying to me. Pointless killing. Pointless celebration.

We don’t celebrate the deaths, not even of those who have caused us harm. It’s not who we are, and it only invites retribution, and keeps the pointless violence, the pointless arguments going.

Jesus told us that it is easy to pray for our friends and family, but that we are to pray for our enemies as well. It’s really really hard. And it is one of the few gates that will open the door to true change, which has to come from the heart.

There is no guarantee that an operation will succeed, no matter how talented, trained and intelligent the operators are. Well done, Navy SEALS. Well done, those who gathered the information, who confirmed the information, and who chose to execute surgically, rather than a bomb which would kill without positive identification. Well done, gathering all the computers and flash drives, hopefully full of information which will give insight into future plans which can be thwarted.

Osama’s death doesn’t bring back the thousands killed in the 9/11 attacks. It does send a message that attackers will be hounded until they pay for their actions. That’s not a pass for dancing; it’s a grim tally in the world of hard-ball politics.

May 5, 2011 Posted by intlxpatr | Counter-terrorism, Interconnected, Law and Order, Leadership, Locard Exchange Principal, Political Issues | 11 Comments