"Rejoice not when your enemy falls..."

For the just man falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble to ruin.
Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles, let not your heart exult,
Lest the LORD see it, be displeased with you, and withdraw his wrath from your enemy.
Be not provoked with evildoers, nor envious of the wicked;
For the evil man has no future, the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Proverbs 24:16-20

So, I wrote about being uneasy in this entry about 3 years ago. Then I wrote about the uneasiness lifting. Now it's back.

As I explained to my students, I'm really uneasy celebrating someone's death. Even if it's somebody evil. They got Osama yesterday. Well, here: NEW YORK TIMES .

I was very uneasy last night. I can't deny that I was proud of the group who took care of him (SEAL Team 6). I'm proud of my President for giving the order. Even more proud that he did what G. the Lesser couldn't (or wouldn't) do. But.

But, the cheering crowds seemed a little too much like the cheering and dancing that happened in the middle east right after September 11. At least they were mostly young people. I also think that the young people don't remember those images. They don't remember the images of our guys being dragged through town. They don't know what they look like and that makes me uneasy.

To the rest of the world, are we going to look like the people we're fighting?