Death and War

Well, I guess the big news of the week is the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I feel guilty for feeling happy about this. I feel sad because I know it is not the end. He is dead but another will most likely take his place, if not now then sometime in the future. To some he was a martyr to us in America he is the most vile creature that has ever walked the planet. Can both views be true? Is the killing of thousands in the name of Allah any better than the killing of thousands in the name of vengeance? I don't know that there is any right answer to this. The only think that I think makes our side slightly more right, in my view, is that he struck first. The world is better off without him in the end.

" What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."

Kohelet - Ecclesiastes - 1:9

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

(Robert Frost, 1923)