US 1 - Al-Zarqawi 2490
Yeah...
What's crazy, and this is totally off topic, but it makes me think about what a wasteful and shameful thing violence is. Here is, even if he committed what some would call mistakes and crimes, and sins, nonetheless, what drives a person to that degree of desperation and anger and hatred? And that's if what we've been told can even be believed. All I know is that a lot of people are dead- al Zarqawi being just one of them, and what do we know about him? Or any of the countless millions who have died in human history? Well in this case, we only know what has been told to us, and to what ends was that information disseminated or even created? Just another human life consigned to the memory hole.
Make no mistake- the al Zarqawi that has been shown to us is an absolute disgrace to Islam. If he was as he was described, he was a horrible transgressor against what he claimed to be fighting for. Then again, like many other men and women led astray and who have done evils, they never woke up and decided to be evil. They were fighting against what they considered evil. How do they get there? I would recommend reading WB Yeats brilliant poem Easter 1916 about the Dublin Uprising and the birth of the Irish Republican Army- evil to some, heroes to others.
I dunno. Sorry to be a threadjacking asshat, but it just really has me thinking, and I don't think that's inherently bad.