{"id":6452,"date":"2016-01-08T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T00:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:50:07","slug":"remembering-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6452","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Osama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, on\u00a0a re-run of The Newsroom<\/em>, the killing of Osama bin Laden was the major news event of the day. May 1, 2011.<\/p>\n

I watched the reporters and other Americans cheering and high-fiving, and it brought back the feelings I had that day.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t jubilant. I was sad.<\/p>\n

My sorrow was not, of course, for bin Laden, under whose command al Qaeda killed thousands of innocent people.<\/p>\n

I was sad that so many people saw this as a victory for the United States, and a revenge for September 11. It’s natural that people were glad to see this enemy gone, but from many it was a bloodthirsty celebration.<\/p>\n

It was not a war-ending\u00a0triumph. Too much had happened in the 10\u00a0years of the War on Terror, during which bin Laden\u00a0had been a top target. In that time, al Qaeda had far outgrown its founders.<\/p>\n

Al Qaeda is a network of affiliates in a number of countries, a network of terrorists that did not need bin Laden\u00a0to grow. You don’t shut down a network by cutting out one member.<\/p>\n

Tom and I had lived and worked in Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates. I’d had assignments in Iraq, Egypt, and elsewhere in the region.\u00a0I\u00a0saw how the U.S. actions look from that side of the globe.<\/p>\n

We often look like a bully – telling other countries what to do and enforcing it with our military muscle. And we look hypocritical – criticizing others for human rights violations while ignoring our own.<\/p>\n

Through our own\u00a0actions we made enemies who turned to terrorism.<\/p>\n

Osama lives on.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 1988, the year al Qaeda was formed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"1988<\/a><\/p>\n

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