Flawless Victory……
There aren’t that many moments which truly change the entire world overnight, the experience of being in it and living in it, for every single human being.
Osama Bin Laden engineered one such historic moment, a morning of calculated terror and mass-murder, executed on a scale that I had never imagined possible in my country, one morning’s events that would act like a world-wide, pulverizing wrecking ball, turning what we thought we knew into ash and rubble.
What a tragedy we all went through. I was sitting with classmates, in school, dressed in my uniform, occupied with whatever stress or stupid joke or interesting lesson that came with high school. I remember nothing else of that day now, just the confusion, the shock. I watched my assistant headmaster first announce one plane crash into the world trade center to our students, all assembled in performing arts center. I’m thinking, “oh wow, that’s crazy, what kind of retard would crash a plane into a building?” Then the other plane was announced.
At that time, these kinds of things seemed impossible, and implausible actually. Why??? I mean why go through so much effort for so foul a cause? What kind of heart could devote itself to such evil?
I learned that day that evil has its own will in our universe, and can empower the most rag tag of lost souls into forces of destruction.
The death of Osama Bin Laden injures the will of evil in our world.
There is no warrant for Bin Laden’s diabolical movement, and what started as an attack on the United States, our people, our economy, our flag, became an assault on the nature of human beings. It provoked the United States into taking unspeakable actions on our own part, and it jolted us into wondering, “are people really like this?”. Many of us looked at each other differently afterward.
The knowledge that Osama Bin Laden has been brought to justice helps me process all this national trauma. It helps me to know that the world is less evil now. I feel great knowing that innocent lives will be spared due to his death. It helps me to know that our president, a leader I trusted and fought for, made his top military priority to find this guy and take him out, because even though maybe we forgot about him, Obama knew that we needed to bring Bin Laden down. Such evil needs an answer, by any means necessary.
