Our Lives at Risk II…./The Death of Osama Bin Laden

 The war is still raging.  Iraq is seemingly more quiet now. Afghanistan, a Waterloo for the Russians, has led to the Pakistan network that eventually uncovered Osama Bin Laden.

Yes, the same one that had eluded western attempts to be captured.  He who defied international efforts at all levels to be captured for ten years and was assigned the responsibility for global terror. The same one that masterminded  the horror of “9-11”. That one.                                                                                           His contributions as a living human was ended with a bullet in his head.  Good riddance to bad rubbish some said..Celebrations occurred.That seems to be the preferred formula.., to kill.. everywhere. Bullets from guns,  suicide bombers and the murders of children by family and friends all continue unabated. I’ve heard “if it works don’t fix it”. That is the problem. Bullets and killing doesn’t work, that is, if the goal is a peaceful nourishing existence for mankind.                                                                                      Obviously, that isn’t the goal then. If that isn’t, what is the goal. Are we all in line to get our ticket to some planned elimination! Life in it’s  “beautiful journey” has plenty of pitfalls and tragedies without that planned end for some obscure and trivial excuse .  That’s the real war that rages on ..killing each other..In a subway, or in the schools, the home or the streets of our homes…Capital punishment…I ask again, “are we safe yet?”

Osama was the ultimate terror threat . Did killing him make you feel safer? We all agree if anyone had to go he was the one?..The after effect of ridding the world of so much potential misery should have brought colossal relief. It did not.  Nor has the death of his lieutenants or aids. His death gave the victim”s survivors..revenge.. pay back..! For what? The agony forever that the families of the victims must endure? Not in a million years!  It did authorize the immediate killing of others for revenge..pay back. The wrenching anguish of the supposed pursuit of Bin Laden and his Al-Queda /Taliban comrades while  leaving wounded and dead all over the planet was a travesty  and a horrible waste of human life and dreams of families around the globe. Has Killing him  freed us from the threat of being killed? Not yet, it seems to me. It certainly hasn’t effected the killing in the middle east, in the schools, in the homes and in the streets at all. I still see some attempts to glamorize and justify these absolute ultimate crimes.  The war rages on..because we have chosen to kill. By any means necessary and for any reason.                        Strangely, the only rationale that is untried is “TO PRESERVE AND DEFEND THE RIGHT TO LIVE’.     At all levels, gun or weapon controls are must. War games must cease. Dialogue and acceptance  of our human kindred is mandatory to begin to achieve our goals. Respect for our individual religions and life choices makes sense to me too.

All of that would  begin the process to eliminate the risk of our lives being threatened.