For whom the bell tolls...

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Thursday June 08, 2006 · 8:28 AM PDT

2006/06/08 · 08:28

It didn't surprise me too much that the american media are celebrating the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi like we have just won the world series. It doesn't surprise me too much that some of my more liberal friends are thrilled that "we got him, we got him!"

I guess I was a bit surprised though to see the front page post by Bill in Maine that said:

"They found his body in the bedroom. And the kitchen. And the den. And the garage. And the neighbor's apartment."

um..I guess I almost forgot: "hooray!"

The usual democratic response to this is "well, its so fantastic that we did this killing, but like, its still not gonna change the fact that the other killing we don't like, is gonna continue." A nice John Kerry-ish "we like killing accept when we don't like killing.."

Now, war is war. If you don't expect killing in war, than you don't know nothing. But that we too, have to celebrate the death of this man--or that graphic statement by the front page poster--as somehow jubilant is kinda of scary.

Look here,
http://go.reuters.com/...

for some talk by the father of Nick Berg, whose son nick was killed in iraq in 2004:

In a telephone interview with Reuters from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the father said: "I have no sense of relief, just sadness that another human being had to die"

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls.

Right now, if you look at most media sites, there are amble pics of the dead al-Zarqawi. It is a time to celebrate, America. Hooray.

perhaps the war will change course now and perhaps it wont. but as we celebrate the picture of a death in delight, we already have changed course.

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