Naturally, we are all awaking to the news that Osama Bin Laden has been killed. To be sure, to be very sure, our president received an intelligence briefing regarding the whereabouts of Bin Laden. Our president then made an active decision to order U.S. troops and special forces to execute an operation to find and kill this man.
First, as we process the news, those who have served as our president's detractors will find a way to not give the president credit for making such a decision. I have already seen them giving credit to the previous president, the military rank and file, the forces of other countries for the operation. I have also seen them continuing to call our current president incompetent and a host of other recycled names they have called him at other times of his presidency. It's almost as painful and laughable as watching Mary J. Blige thank both God and Jesus for her Grammy award a few years ago.
I have also seen images of Americans, "Americans" in the streets cheering and celebrating the death of Bin Laden. Yes, ccelebrating.
I cannot find the patriotism in celebrating this operation. While I will not comment on whether the president made an appropriate and morally defensible position or not, I have trouble understanding how we can be celebrating at this moment. There will continue to be terror within the boarders of this country and abroad.
What is more, this war against terror, and the actions that led up to it, have produced hundreds of thousands of casualties. American soldiers. American civilians. World civilians. Christians. Muslims. Jewish.
Our prayers and thoughts should be with our president and the families who have lost someone in these actions. We should be humble, solemn and sublime and even deliberate in our actions and not look to, you know, spike the ball or whatever metaphor works better here.
But, I am convinced that we will look back on the cheering and celebrating crowds one day, and as a Christian nation, as a spiritual nation, be ashamed of this.
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