Progressive: Justice Served but......bin Laden no Different Than Harry Truman

Osama bin Laden

Progressive - I always rejoice at the death of a mass murderer, and Osama bin Laden was definitely a mass murderer. He killed 3,000 people here on 9/11, and he killed more than 300 in August 1998 in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. So I understand the sense of relief or closure or even triumph that many Americans feel today. But it’s worth grappling with precisely what it is that bin Laden did, and why it is that Americans are chanting “USA, USA” today. What bin Laden did was to use violence as a ready tool to advance his purposes. What bin Laden did was to wantonly sacrifice the lives of innocent people in service of those purposes. In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than William McKinley was in the Philippines.

Harry Truman

In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than Harry Truman was when he dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this regard, bin Laden is no different a mass murderer than Ronald Reagan was when he funded and trained the contras against Nicaragua or backed the Salvadoran military against the rebels there. Read full column here: News New Mexico

Progressive: Justice Served but......bin Laden no Different Than Harry Truman