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We Do Not Deserve to Win: Feeling Guilty for Celebrating bin Laden’s Death Is For a People Who Deserve to Lose

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Created on Thursday, 12 May 2011 00:49

What do you call a society that cannot celebrate the death of its mass-murdering archenemy?  What do you call a nation that feels too sorry to react with glee at the death of a man who murdered thousands of its people?

Obviously America did not respond this way (generally) to the death of Osama bin Laded.  Nothing was abnormal or repugnant in the way we behaved.   In fact, we should still be dancing in the streets this minute... But no sooner had bin Laden's body turned cold than another scant, yet loud chorus of sorrow-seekers began filtering through the jubilation.

From the morbid minds of Michael Moore and the Huffington Post to the terminally guilt-soaked New York Times, to NPR (no adjective needed), to CNN, the evangelical Christianity Today, Washington D.C.'s Express, to the moldy Birkenstock sandals of the Smirking Chimp writers, a predictably depressing thread of nabobs began chiding us for our joy in the death of a fellow human being (in theory).   We are a bloodthirsty people, don't you know?  Why else would we react to the death of the founder and leader of a religious cult that bathes itself in blood?  My God, how insensitive!

What would you call a nation if it were full of people like this?

Those who lament our celebrating bin Laden's death may be few, but because they have such a loud microphone in the popular media to spew their infantile concerns scares me.  Also scary are how many of them hail from overtly (and overly) educated backgrounds sends another chill up my spine, as our nation races to "educate" its children as quickly and intensely as possible.   This would be a great thing, if it were not that being "educated" has become somehow synonymous with a nauseating fixation on political correctness; of a hypnotic desire for "peace" at the expense of pride, patriotism, standards, boundaries, and the punishment that accompanies the violation of them.

Our trend is to be as educated as possible, but since when has being educated meant the banishment of national pride, just revenge, self-preservation, and the establishment of moral relativism and the celebration of meekness?   Whatever has caused the two to blend, it needs to stop –and fast.

Why do you call a people like this?

Flipping around on TV late last week, I ran across a broadcast of Death Wish with Charles Bronson.   Bronson's wife had been murdered, his daughter raped.  He and his liberal/educated son-in-law are talking of the ramped crime of the day; how people were feeling powerless to stop the violent, maddening society spiraling around them.   In one scene, Bronson asks his son-in-law, "...what have we become? What do you call people who, when they're faced with a condition of fear, do nothing about it, they just run and hide?"

Bronson's timid son-in-law simply shrugs his shoulders and quips, "Civilized?"

Yes, Michael Moore, Huffington Post, NPR, New York Times, New Yorker , and CNN for having to reassure us that our reactions are only natural, etc., this anecdote may not be a carbon copy of your response to Osama bin Laden's death, but surely is in the same vain.   And if this is how "civilized" people deal with the "unfortunate but necessary" killing of mass-murderers, then civilized I am NOT, nor ever wish to be.  And a nation that treats bin Laden's death and its rightful reaction to it the way these few have, does not deserve to win.   Again: a nation that reacts to its enemies' deaths the way that these people have does not deserve to defeat them.

No one should feel guilty about feeling happy one of the world's worst creatures is dead.   Nor should we expect to win against any enemy if we cannot accept that reveling in their demise is just, acceptable, and laudable.  Bin Laden's killing is the pristine example of an occasion where emotional desire and genuine intellectual conclusion meet, ride and rise in tandem, then subside, leaving us a more united, and determined people.  But this will not be the case, and so our nation's existence, if the views of people like Michael Moore, HuffPo's Pamela Gerloff and NYT's Benedict Carey permeate our country.

"The terrorists are going to win"

Since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, I have quietly, on occasion whispered to friends: "The terrorists are going to win."   Obviously I do not mean numerically, but in spirit...?   I say this because since 9/11, we have been fixated on what (besides episodes of American Idol and Thirteen, Cycloptic and Pregnant)...?  We've worried ourselves to death about water boarding terrorists, about "enhanced interrogation techniques," then cried about how we house terrorists in Guantanamo Bay, then wailed over naked pictures of terrorists in Abu Ghraib, then sobbed over tracking Al-Qaeda suspects in public libraries, over how we must try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in U.S. civilian court, over how some diabetic slob at the airport might see an X-Ray of our genitals; reading Miranda rights on battle fields; how civilians are caught in the crossfire when the jihadists use them as human shields....

It seems like we have done nothing but be consumed with how to preserve the luxurious dignities of those who consume themselves with nothing more than our complete destruction in every way imaginable.

This is why I have said the terrorists are going to win. 

Now, with bin Laden's death, a good portion of us are worrying about how our revelry appears to the world; of whether we should publicize the death photos of America's worst enemy since Hitler and Tojo.   Such worries are not those of a people destined for survival, let alone victory –they are the worries of a people destined for the ash heap of history.  

What do you call a society like this?

Truly, what do you call a people who boo-hoo over how they'll be perceived celebrating the death of their mortal enemy?   Newest to this phenomenon is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying he refuses to look at the photos of bin Laden's justly exploded head this week.   

I tell my friends the terrorists are going to win because while America is too busy marveling at its own "grace" in how it handles Osama bin Ladin's death and over moral relativism bullshit, the Islamists and other totalitarians in the world are seething over WHAT they hate, WHO they hate, WHY they hate them, and HOW they'll destroy them (i.e. us). 

You all want to win this war of cultures?   You all want to win this war of Modern Man versus the troglodytes?  You want to win the 21^st Century’s War of the Worlds?   You want to win this war against blazing-eyed genocidal Neanderthals masquerading as a legitimate religion..?   Then ask yourselves:  what do you call a society too full of Michael Moores, Pamela Gerloffs, Susan Pivers, Harry Reids and the rest of the self-hating sorrow junkies..?

You know what to ultimately call that society?  You know what finally call these people?  Answer:  GONE. 

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