Ding Dong, the Witch is dead....

I've spent much of my day--as I'm sure you have--hearing more and more details about the death of Osama bin Laden.

Like most sane people, I figure the world is better off without him in it.

And I do understand the joy and relief people feel who lost loved ones in 9/11 and other terrorist attacks.

And I am proud to be defended by such warriors as Navy Seals. God bless them.

And, I must say, I am proud and glad that President Obama is showing up so decisive and thoughtful and masterful in the whole thing. I love the President and am thankful for anything that shows him off as the remarkable man and leader he is.

And, in spite of all that, I harbor deep reservations about a policy that can only be seen as state sponsored assassination (a more politically correct word for 'murder').

What I hear, listening most of the day, is that the mission was not to apprehend or capture...but to kill Osama.

I well know Osama alive would be more trouble, much more trouble than him dead. I well know he couldn't ever be prosecuted in a court in the US with anywhere near a 'fair trial' much less a jury of his 'peers'.

Yet, it troubles me. It just does.

I'm just a purist about the limits on the government. I know, believe me, I know, most people consider him a enemy combatant.

But it gives me pause that we simply went to kill him. It just does.