This is the wrong kind of dance.

It was an interesting experience to not be in the know last night. My wife and I were playing the Wii and then we watched a movie together, so I never even heard the news of what had happened in the world until I was plugging my phone in to go to bed and noticed that ALL of facebook nation and something to say about the death of Osama Bin Laden.

First of all, I really don't like getting my news from Facebook. Not sure whether its because I now feel like I am behind, or I am just bugged that everyone has to post the same thing, twice...on their status line, but I don't like it.

Actually, I think the thing that bothers me is the immense spectrum of responses that came through in light of the news. And perhaps that is what is most un-nerving about all of this. I feel that, as a nation, perhaps we have gone a little off the deep end with this news. Is America more great then it was yesterday? Is "F*^$ Pakistan" really the best response? But most of all, is dancing on the grave of someone else really what this all boils down to? I thought we as a people were better than that (who am I kidding?).

Now don't get me wrong, I am not any different, in many regards than the country as a whole; I just happened to come online and read everything post-news break and had the opportunity to think before responding. So please don't think I am taking the Holier-than-thou approach (as I have noticed most of my posts are); but I am very concerned with how happy we are of the death of another human being. Relieved? Great. Closure? Fine. But Happy? Doesn't seem right. To me, some of the Facebook posts I read last night seemed way too self-righteous and "ass-kicking, gun-toting, Jack Bower owned your Islam ranting, muslim preaching, terrorist-mongering piece of trash."

We should be better than that. Regardless of our views, and I share them; despite what we feel, and I feel it; we need to find some reverence in the fact that we as a country have had to resort to killing another man. A life was ended. And while it was deserved, and very much coming for some time, we should in no way be spitefully dancing on the grave of the deceased. This is not that kind dance. We need to be better than that.