[Dean's World] Scott Kirwin: Should We Celebrate Zarqawi's Death?

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Posted by Scott Kirwin:
Should We Celebrate Zarqawi's Death?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1149860196.shtml


   I once worked in Japan with a guy who taught English in post-Ceausescu
   Romania. He told me that the grandmother of one of his students used
   to watch a particular videotape whenever she wanted to relax. The
   student said his grandmother nothing would relax her more, no pill,
   nightcap or piece of music, than the video of the former dictator
   Nicolai Ceausescu and his wife standing before a firing squad and
   being gunned down.

   Seeing the video of Zarqawi's death, I begin to understand how that
   old Romanian woman felt. I hope to soon see a similar video of Osama
   Bin Laden's one-way trip to Paradise.

   Father Jonathan, writing [1]here for Fox News, says that he can't
   rejoice at the death of Musab al Zarqawi:

     I can rejoice today because a man's evil acts have come to a halt.
     I can applaud military men for stopping an aggressor. I can even
     celebrate justice. But I can never allow myself to gloat in the
     destruction of another human being.

   Unlike the good padre, I can and believe we should rejoice - if not
   "gloat".

   Calling al Zarqawi a human being is an insult to those of us who have
   created life instead of taken it. As I mention in [2]this essay, I
   believe that some human beings are born lacking a soul and
   consequently act no better than mindless automatons bent on fulfilling
   their own needs. He was a rapist while still in his teens, and
   tortured as well as killed using methods that would gag de Sade. Had
   he done to kittens and puppies what he did to Nick Berg, Jack
   Armstrong, Shosei Koda and Ken Bigley the furor over his actions would
   have been greater amongst certain segments of the population.

   Zarqawi was a psychopath catapulted to fame and power through the
   politics of the region. Had he been born in the USA, I have no doubt
   that he would have achieved the same notoriety as Jeffrey Daumer, John
   Wayne Gacy and Richard Ramirez. While the terms "rejoice", "gloat" and
   "celebrate" may be too strong, I believe that we should at least take
   satisfaction knowing that one monster has been removed from this world
   - and perhaps be pleased knowing that his death [3]was not as quick as
   first assumed.

References

   1. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198746,00.html
   2. http://www.therazor.org/?p=620
   3. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198850,00.html