For that feat, I want to thank Courtney Messerscmidt, who blogs as GrEaT sAtAnS gIrLfRiEnD, and who in an interview for Foreign Policy explained why so many of her peers expressed joy and gratitude over the death of Osama Bin Laden.
I don't want to discourage you from reading the article, so I'll just give you the short, condensed version. Basically, Bin Laden was an asshat who deserved his fate for the evil he committed and represented. And even better, most Americans are down with that.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world seems to feel differently. The UN wants an investigation into the death of the Al-Queda boss, and most Europeans are simply aghast at American displays of wanton joy at his demise. Not all, to be sure. Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, also expressed her happiness at the terrorist bums death, but unfortunately, she seems to be in the minority of Germans. One judge has even gone so far as to threaten prosecution on the grounds that Merkel's reaction was tantamount to rewarding and approving a crime, while further calling her remarks "tacky and undignified".
Meanwhile, the majority of Germans, according to one poll, considered her remarks to be "un-Christian and vengeful."
And as though to rub salt in the still painful wounds of 9/11, the nation of Pakistan, while denying that it aided and abetted Bin Laden, is still angry over the operation, and has even hinted at retaliation.
Such is the worthlessness of the world we have been defending for the last seventy-plus years. The reaction of American citizens to the death of Bin Laden, minus a few notable assholes like Michael Moore, should be at least understandable.
Ironically, people like Courtney would probably be among the first to disagree with me when I say we should remove our troops from most foreign areas and leave these people to their collective, well deserved fates. I might not necessarily cheer and dance in the streets when they met that fate, but I wouldn't waste so much as one sheet of Kleenex over it either. Its just been coming for such a long, long, long, long time.
