"He got what he deserved!" - Oh yeah...?

"He got what he deserved", president Barack Obama said yesterday, referring to the killing of Usama Bin Ladin. "He was the perpetrator of mass murder."


President Barack Obama


Watch the interview on CBS 60 Minutes, May 8:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/08/60minutes/main20060876.shtml?tag=strip


The Iraq Body Count now estimates  100 708 - 110 000 civilian casualties dead in the Iraqi war that the US launched in the spring of 2003, watch

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database


Please note, civilians killed. Children. Women. Old people. – Innocent human beings.

-        Just as innocent as those 3 000 persons that died in the attack on World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001.

How many have been killed in Afghanistan? Some 8 813 civilians;

http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html


-Some months ago, nine children were out on the hill sides in Afghanistan, collecting wood. They were shot at, all of them died – the military believed they were out placing land mines.



Afghanistan


- Before Barack Obama was elected US president he seemed to me to be intelligent, analytic, and at the same time humble, psychologically insightful and empatic and also prepared to take responsibility. He was to end the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan. He intended to close Guantanamo. He planned to give all Americans access to good health care. He was going to give all American children equal rights to  quality schools and good education.



Children in Afghanistan


What happens to a person who is given almost unlimited power? And almost as much wealth? As well as admiration and applause? Who unavoidably is surrounded by beckoning nay-sayers?

And where every gesture, every word from you is paid attention to and registered, all over the entire world?

- Well, in any case, something seems to have happened to Barack Obama. He became a Christian believer as an adult, in his twenties,  as he himself describes it (in his autobiography "Dreams of My Father). It was in the very moment when he realized he didn´t have to throw away his intelligence and reasoning when confessing to be a Christian. The Christian social-liberal message fitted well in to his own life experience.

But, quite obviously: power does change a human being. Maybe not through and through, but quite enough for him to say about a fellow human being:

"He got what he deserved."



- The slave on the triumph carriage, anyone? -





Memento mori.

Remember: you are mortal.