When I think about how awful and heartbreaking and terrible 9/11 was,
When I think about how disturbing and wrong I found the American response: anger, nationalism, calls for revenge, anti-Muslim prejudice,
When I think about how I felt knowing we were going to war in Afghanistan, and then in Iraq,
When I think about all of the lives lost, both military and civilian,
When I think about the civil liberties stripped from American citizens in the name of the war on terror,
When I think about domestic acts of terrorism on mosques and Islamic community organizations and hate crimes against Middle Eastern Americans,
When I think about the lies, the propaganda, the violence, the resources deflected from education and social programs, the ugliness of it all
No, this doesn’t feel like justice. Was this the point of it all? The death of one man?