Requiem for a monster | Scholars and Rogues
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On the El this morning no one was high fiving or celebrating. Many of the people there were just children when it all happened, and probably don’t feel what I feel.
What I feel is not really happiness, but more like satisfaction, albeit of a grim sort. I understand that we are a nation of laws, and nations of laws do not carry out extra-judicial assasinations in other countries. What we did was murder, pure and simple, and that I have as much blood on my hands as those who stormed the compound. And I am OK with it. Because he killed my people. If I could have, I would have strangled him with my own hands. He is dead, and my day is better for it.
What I feel is not really happiness, but more like satisfaction, albeit of a grim sort. I understand that we are a nation of laws, and nations of laws do not carry out extra-judicial assasinations in other countries. What we did was murder, pure and simple, and that I have as much blood on my hands as those who stormed the compound. And I am OK with it. Because he killed my people. If I could have, I would have strangled him with my own hands. He is dead, and my day is better for it.
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