The Ability to Kill Osama Bin Laden Does Not Make America Great
“Today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people,” the president declared. “We are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to,” he concluded, after insisting that the execution represents justice. “That is the story of our history, whether it’s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.”
How perverse. President Obama is the leader of a nation in which justice is but a distant dream for millions of residents. He leads a nation that can afford billions of dollars annually for war but cannot feed the nearly 18 million children who lived in homes without food security in 2009. And yet, the Nobel Peace Prize winner can fix his mouth to say that killing a man on the other side of the globe provides proof of America’s exceptionalism.
I agree mostly with this article especially on the belief that we can’t provide things for ourselves. But to be fair, I feel like that the article is downplaying the meaning behind his death. It’s not just any man that was killed, it was a madmen bent on killing innocent people.
Yes, justice has been served, but now we should focus on serving justice (institutionalized racism, a broken immigration policy, censorship, a broken economy, etc.) in our own community. We still have a lot work to do.
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