And so I commemorate the passing of yet another whose passing I am grateful to have lived to see. I hear many of my countrymen are taking great delight in his passing and others are finding that delight unseemly. Myself, I am ambivalent. It occurs to me that this one killed fewer Americans and, indeed, fewer of every category than some whose passing I have remembered in song (Ronald Reagan comes to mind, as he often does when I recount the people I am grateful to have survived), and that the actions of any one man pale utterly in the face of the structures that no one set of hands put in place, but that he killed any is enough to make my list, and so, while this world still harbors evil and those who delight in committing evil, it houses one less and that's just fine by me.
Published on May 03, 2011 04:18