As far as the recently announced death of an international criminal…my wife and I are optimistically cautious.  Of course, the man is credited with full responsibility for the 9/11 attacks but we don’t want him to become a martyrized hero for the opposition, either.  He is simply a criminal and should be ignored as such.

However, we can thank our armed forces and intelligence agencies for hopefully reducing the potency of currently-recognised terrorist organizations, fully aware that opponents of established governments perennially sprout like weeds in one name or another.

Let’s hope history forgets about the recently dead criminal and doesn’t make much of his personal impact on civilization.  His family and subculture still have to account for contributing to the sins of the son, do they not?

In my opinion, Saudi Arabia still has blood on its oily repressive government hands – leaders in that country have a long way to go to grant freedoms to their people and prevent future uprisings or terrorist training camps.

In the meantime, let’s celebrate a meaningful victory for military veterans and others who’ve been injured, critically or fatally, and the sacrifices families have made in the effort to pursue “justice,” as U.S. presidents, current and former, call this event.

I will not say we can justify the death of one person for any reason until the day I give in and admit we are a barbarous species.

One thousand years from now, we will look back and say today’s generation was still barbarous but let’s hope we figure a way out of our interspecies killing path.