Bin Laden

I just finished watching Obama's public address from last night in which he told the nation and the world that Osama Bin Laden is dead.

Obama is great at making emotional speeches. He talked a lot about the September 11 attacks ("9/11" appears 6 times in the ten minute speech)-- the billowing smoke and wreckage, the heroism and bravery, the empty seat at the dinner table.

He also talked a lot about how our military has been bravely fighting against the evil al Qaeda in order to ensure such an act of terrorism wouldn't happen on our soil again.

Now Bin Laden is dead. "And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done."

Justice has been done? Really?

I've seen too much evidence to believe that a few guys with box cutters were able to take out two giant buildings, perform a virtually impossible flying maneuver to leave a hole smaller than the plane that was supposed to have made it in the worlds most secure building, and completely pulverize a plane with no identifiable wreckage into a field in Pennsylvania-- all without our nation's air force not noticing. There's a pretty eye-opening documentary about it here.

So I can't help but think that for the last decade we've all been duped into falsely blaming the wrong people for all our problems.

I'm reminded again of the scapegoat mechanism. (btw, that post still gets put in the top 5 results of a Google search) We've successfully dehumanized people from the mid-east and made them the enemy.

Today we can rejoice because our goat has died...

When our president said, "Justice has been done," I think what he meant was, "For decades we've done injustice to the world, especially the middle east, and we've done a lot of work to make sure that Osama Bin Laden looks like the bad guy so that when we killed him it feels like justice has been done."