It’s been a bad year for jihadis …

[aadler]

 
… but a very, very good year indeed for those who don’t want to be killed by them.

So, Anwar al-Awlaki is dead. That’s a shame, but only because they spent a million-dollar Hellfire missile obliterating him from the face of a grateful earth, instead of a 78¢ sniper’s bullet. He was an American citizen? that only means he was a traitor as well as an enemy, and thus more loathsome rather than deserving of more protection.

There really are no serious reservations attached to this welcome event. If I had been the one to kill him, I would have felt I had rendered human civilization a valuable service. As it is, I can only repeat what has already been said, in another (but slightly less pertinent) context:

Rest in pieces, asshole.

Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It's too bad he didn't suffer, though.

[aadler]

I really have no interest in seeing such people suffer. I delight in their fear, defeat and destruction, but suffering per se isn’t really productive. The part of which I approve is that he’s thoroughly, solidly dead.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I was mostly joking, but it depends on what you mean by suffer. What I really would like would be if he had just a few minutes in which he just saw death coming in toward him ... knew his time was up, and who was doing him in.

Being a person who believes in the afterlife, I suspect he'll get what's coming to him one way or another.

[aadler]

Seeing death coming at him … yeah, that would have been nice. Though I suspect the time-window there would have been a second or two, if that much.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I suppose a couple of seconds would have seemed like an eternity ...

[aadler]

Good enough for government work.