al-Zarqawi dies

Ya know, I guess on some level, I should be happy about this. This man has been an obstacle to peace for so long and yeah, I should be happy that he won't be that anymore. I am happy that he won't be that any more. I just wish he didn't have to die to achieve that objective.

I just have trouble celebrating the death of a man, any man...including this one. I wish there was another way, and yet, every time we try another way, someone absues it and turns it against others. I know I sound way to much like Rodney King when I say, "Can't we all just get along?", and have been slapped around enough in this imperfect world to know the answer is a resounding "NO!" Sometimes reality bites.

I know part of this is my own ignorance. I don't understand what makes a man want the ojectives that al-Zarqawi wanted, and others still die for. I understand some level of intolerance. I see it in myself. We all have it, or nothing would be against our accepted laws. I don't understand it to that level though, where people who don't think of the world exactly as you do must die for it. I don't understand the cheapening of life, a miracle of a gift from that same God you claim to worship, to the point where you feel it's your right, to not only refuse that gift on your own behalf, but take that gift from others.

Just the ramblings of an imperfect man in an imperfect world on yet another imperfect day....