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Further to my prior post re Bin Laden’s death:  by saying that I wish justice were not so frequently furthered by killing, I don’t mean to say that I don’t think there should have been a U.S. operation, or that Bin Laden should have been captured rather than killed.  (Capture would have undoubtedly exposed the U.S. troops to worse dangers and created a violent and interminable drama.)

I just feel very somber about it all; that it’s a sad and somber moment, given the suffering and death that has been part of this whole history, given the sorrow of the last ten years, and given the fact that violence on such scale is rarely caused by a single person but a combination of forces.   As a result, I hope that there’s a kind of temperance in the U.S. reaction, and not thoughtless and unseemly jingoism.

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