What was your first reaction to the news? Relief. Nobody knew why the President was going to be addressing the country. You imagined maybe a possible terrorist attack. Then there was a sense of satisfaction, then a sense of revenge. So how much does revenge play into people’s feelings about the killing of bin Laden? People are human. When you take away their loved ones in a brutal way like that, the person who did it is someone you want to see–you want to see vengeance, you want to see retaliation, you want to see satisfaction. Those are all raw, human…
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