{"id":9221,"date":"2011-05-02T08:23:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:43:18","slug":"bin-ladens-real-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/05\/02\/bin-ladens-real-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"bin Laden&#8217;s Real Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3024,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/war_room\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/02\\\/osama_and_chants_of_usa&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110926063645\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com:80\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/war_room\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/02\\\/osama_and_chants_of_usa&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 09:32:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 09:32:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3025,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/sika.holman&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/sika.holman&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/05\/02\/osama_and_chants_of_usa\" title=\"&quot;USA! USA!&quot; is the wrong response - War Room - Salon.com\">&#8220;USA! USA!&#8221; is the wrong response &#8211; War Room &#8211; Salon.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  For decades, we have held in contempt those who actively celebrate death. When we\u2019ve seen video footage of foreigners cheering terrorist attacks against America, we have ignored their insistence that they are celebrating merely because we have occupied their nations and killed their people. Instead, we have been rightly disgusted &#8212; not only because they are lauding the death of our innocents, but because, more fundamentally, they are celebrating death itself. That latter part had been anathema to a nation built on the presumption that life is an &#8220;unalienable right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  But in the years since 9\/11, we have begun vaguely mimicking those we say we despise, sometimes celebrating bloodshed against those we see as Bad Guys just as vigorously as our enemies celebrate bloodshed against innocent Americans they (wrongly) deem as Bad Guys. Indeed, an America that once carefully refrained from flaunting gruesome pictures of our victims for fear of engaging in ugly death euphoria now ogles pictures of Uday and Qusay\u2019s corpses, rejoices over images of Saddam Hussein\u2019s hanging and throws a party at news that bin Laden was shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>  This is bin Laden\u2019s lamentable victory &#8212; he has changed America\u2019s psyche from one that saw violence as a regrettable-if-sometimes-necessary act into one that finds orgasmic euphoria in news of bloodshed. In other words, he\u2019s helped drag us down into his sick nihilism by making us like too many other bellicose societies in history &#8212; the ones that aggressively cheer on killing, as long as it is the Bad Guy that is being killed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sika.holman\" title=\"Sika Holman\">Sika<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is bin Laden\u2019s lamentable victory &#8212; he has changed America\u2019s psyche from one that saw violence as a regrettable-if-sometimes-necessary act into one that finds orgasmic euphoria in news of bloodshed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14,16],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}