Reply #56: Finally, someone else said it so I don't have to bother.

[Solomon]

He acts like we had a soul to lose. I guess the stories of all the other people here and there who have been shitted on by us never registered with people, but somehow, this one does.

People kill me when they say as my friend said to me the other night, "this is America"...

No it's not. "America" in the sense that she was using it, is an idea, a goal to be reached. We're still trying to reach it, but don't act like we were pristine and have fallen somehow. Like we were born perfect like Adam and Eve, and then fell from Heaven. Taking out one man like that is infinitely superior to spending trillinos bombing the hell out of an entire country killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process.

This same person (my friend) who is so saddened by the fact that we killed Bin Laden, did nothing but cheerlead when we were bombing the hell out of Iraq and Bush was shredding the constitution. But only now, it's "this is not America."