It is Good

It is good that he is dead, but it is not justice.  A moment of roaring pain and then blackness is nothing compared to the cascade of grief and violence that his actions spawned over the last decade.  Incalculable losses of life, not just the victims but for the survivors as well.  A nation changed forever in the span of a morning, additions to our lexicon in a language born of idealistic hate.  A legacy of fear and violence that spans continents and now generations.  No, a moment of pain and then release is not justice.  But perhaps, before that last blinding noise seared his brain and removed him as an futile icon in a senseless fight ... just perhaps he knew one final thing.  That he had not won.