he was killed by the CIA in Yemen. The first American citizen to be killed in a drone attack. And then you get extra curious. From Awlaki it’s only a short step to sympathizing with Al Qaeda. Or the Taliban. Yes, y’know, for us they represented resistance to Western oppression. It felt good to hear that the Taliban had shot American soldiers. It healed wounds in our psyche. Sure, you could call it hate. Turn it upside down. Take the Bataclan terrorists in Paris. Remember two of them escaped but were shot by the police a few days later? Don’t you think it healed the wounds of the French people,
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