This is becoming rather unseemly, don't you think? It's one thing for the President to announce that a Special Ops mission successfully - and finally - located Bin Laden and killed him. It's a whole other matter to be dancing in the streets, wildly celebrating a death no matter how vile the decedent. Not even the guardsmen protecting the Wicked Witch of the West continued to celebrate after handing Dorothy the witch's broom. Are we not better than this? Should we not to be measured as a society by how we respond to the killing of another human being? Is not the out-pouring taking place throughout the country precisely the type of public rejoicing often seen in the Arab world in response to a successful attack on western or Israeli interests that we are so quick to condemn? On some levels, I suppose, the nation's exuberance may be the result of a perceived unburdening of the chains thrust about our collective souls as a result of the events of September 11, but even were that the case, that exuberance has to be tempered with some degree of understanding that gaining revenge for a despicable act does not give license to relieving us of our moral imperatives.
