Two more dead Russian generals!

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66. I admit that when I heard about OBL,

my immediate reaction was to raise my fist and cheer. I have never felt bad about that. As the leader behind 911, I felt, and still do, that he earned his end.

When I feel concerned about cheering the deaths of Russians, it is only because I know that some of them did not want this war and are young conscripts. The generals are obviously professional soldiers and they know that death is the risk of their chosen profession. But young conscripts got caught up in things beyond their control.

Then I read about and see the evidence of the massacres and tortures and think that the soldiers who carried them out would have been better off to have turned on their officers and shot them instead. And since they didn't, I feel less concern for them when they are killed.

In war, there is no social order. Many people do not have an internal compass when there is no external social order. They do things they would not have done otherwise. They become feral human beings.

That is the hideousness of war.

In the end, my sympathies and concerns are with the Ukrainian people and their sufferings and losses, the injustice of the attacks on civilians and bombing of civilian targets. And I know very well that, in the same situation as the Ukrainian people, I would retaliate with ruthless anger.

I am sad over the senseless loss of life that never should have been started. But since it has, I support giving the military and humanitarian aid that Ukraine needs. I pray for the Ukrainian people. But since I cannot bring myself to pray for someone's death, I pray for the Russians to be incapacitated in their ability to attack. The end result is probably the same since, if they are incapacitated, the Ukrainian fighters will move in on them. But that is the nature of war and the Russians brought on themselves whatever happens to them.