Originally Posted by
kiln
What happened to the so-called Christian virtues of loving thy enemy and turning the other cheek?
Bin-Laden was responsible for something gruesome and horrible and inhumane. And we all think it so terrible that we want to do gruesome and horrible and inhumane things back to him, apparently to prove that being gruesome and horrible and inhumane is bad. That doesn't make much sense to me at all. I thought America in particualr and "The West" in general was supposed to be the shining example to the rest of the world. Blood-lust and vengence aren't very becoming.