It’s been a bad year for jihadis …
Sep. 30th, 2011 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
… 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.
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Date: 2011-09-30 11:48 pm (UTC)I really cannot find any reason to disagree with Obama's choice to kill him. He joined an organisation that declared war on his own country, and people die in wars.
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