Nice to see other folks thinking along the same lines as my personal thoughts in my earlier post about how bin Laden changed us….
I do hope we can all grow up now that the boogie man is dead….
From The Nation:
We can use the occasion of bin Laden’s death to grasp back for the moment when the world seemed simple, or we can turn away from that impulse. We can say that with his death, we return to the world as our adult eyes see it, shot through with suffering and complexity. We can feel compassion for the thousands of innocents who died by bin Laden’s hand as well as our own, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time in places like Bagram and Baghdad. We can remember that just because there is evil in the world that we are fighting—and bin Laden was a mass murderer and war criminal—that does not mean we are purely righteous. We can reject relativism and still embrace nuance. We can have the courage to speak and act like adults, to put away childish things, to once and for all banish the bad guys from our nightmares.
via After Osama bin Laden’s Death, An End to ‘Bad Guys’ | The Nation.
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