Is it my sad duty to reveal that, in killing Osama bin Laden, we have achieved neither victory nor revenge. As long as we allow him to foment racial and religious discord here in our homeland, convince us to abandon our self-respect and dignity in the desertion of our honoring of human rights and du
e process, cause us to translate the fear he generates into the ruination of our own economy with wars that have left us pretty much exactly where we were when we began them, use our own primitive ritual of responding to our patriotic outrage with prehistoric bloodlust to goad us into breaking our hearts in the sacrifice of our sons and daughters, this homicidal fanatic continues, in death, the very campaign to devastate our national fiber in which has was so unspeakably successful in life.
He was a murderer. Nothing more. We cannot allow the psychopathically twisted quasi-religious pretension of his motives to sway us into making him more. If we do that, he wins. We have exterminated a noxious pest in the garden of our world. Let us now get on with the nurturing of healthy food and beautiful blossoms.
And bring our children home.
Harold R. Pettus
Everett
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