{"id":28940,"date":"2011-05-02T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28940"},"modified":"2011-05-02T07:29:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:29:25","slug":"a-sigh-of-relief-but-not-a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/05\/a-sigh-of-relief-but-not-a-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"A sigh of relief, but not a celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cTrying to keep in mind that how I respond to the death of my enemies says as much about me as it does about my enemies,\u201d Christian author Rachel Held Evans<\/a> posted on Twitter<\/a> Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a point worth remembering. As I\u2019m writing this, many Americans are literally taking to the streets to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden<\/a>. There\u2019s also plenty of celebration on the Internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf your [sic] not drinking and partying tonight you are a terrorist,\u201d one person wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But when I view the images<\/a> of people celebrating at Ground Zero, in Times Square, outside the White House and elsewhere, I can\u2019t help but wonder what the rest of the world will think of an America that raises a glass and jumps for joy when someone is killed \u2013 even if that someone is the most notorious terrorist in the world.<\/p>\n

Are we really a society that revels in getting revenge against those who do us harm? I suspect many in the Arab world will interpret American celebration that way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not celebrating. I relate more to the sentiments of World Trade Center survivor Harry Waizer, who was quoted today by The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this means there is one less death in the future, then I\u2019m glad for that. But I just can\u2019t find it in me to be glad one more person is dead, even if it is Osama bin Laden.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m thankful for U.S. forces that accomplished a necessary mission. I believe the world is safer without Osama bin Laden in it. But you\u2019re not going to see me jumping for joy over the death of anyone.<\/p>\n

A sigh of relief, yes. But not a celebration.<\/p>\n

Haussamen bio<\/a> \u2502\u00a0Commentary page<\/a> \u2502\u00a0Feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe the world is safer without Osama bin Laden in it. But you\u2019re not going to see me jumping for joy over the death of anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,10],"tags":[201,116],"class_list":["post-28940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-haussamen-columns","tag-terrorism","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}