These views are strictly my own, and I apologize for any offense that I must cause.

I have been glad to be in Australia the past few days.

Perhaps I do not have enough national pride, but the images I've seen of people reveling in the streets at the news of someones death greatly discomfort me.  It bothers me that he was shot dead.  Maybe it wasn't intended, but I'm fairly certain it wasn't an accident.  I would have much rather wished that he sat trial, even knowing it surely would have ended in execution.  Hungary is currently trying a man, age 97, for war crimes as a Nazi soldier.  That is justice.  What the American public is celebrating is not justice.  It is revenge.

And I am sorry to the many Americans who will be offended by this statement, but I simply did not ever hate Osama Bin Laden enough to support political assassination by a country that claims to stand by such high morals.  Osama Bin Laden was evil and deserved punishment, in his case I do support execution, however the joy I have seen in pictures of Washington D.C., and even on Yale's campus causes me great sorrow, to the point of almost being sickened.

It is a good time to be away.