Rosie O'Donnell, comedian and celebrity, has come out against the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden -- on principle. O'Donnell no doubt speaks for many liberals and some libertarians when she claims that Osama bin Laden's execution is an injustice because he didn't get "due process" of law. According to O'Donnell, America is supposed to be "better than" its enemies, and she claims that we become terrorists ourselves when we do things like capture and execute the leader of the world terrorist movement.

Here are some things that O'Donnell, and people with her viewpoints, have probably not considered and never will consider:

Just as an individual needs a reality-oriented form of psychotherapy, a nation or a culture needs a reality-based set of solutions to get out of any mess it finds itself in.

Dear Dr. Hurd,

Is it just me? I am getting the strangest impression that our media is slowly, but oh-so-surely, trying to convince an easily convinced and swayed American public that bin Laden is actually something of a hero...one who was mercilessly gunned down by the American baddies. How about the 12-year-old boy who was his neighbor, a picture plastered on the AOL headlines. And, oh, was poor little bin Laden armed, or was the poor thing defenseless? I did hear comments to the effect that as he went down, he grabbed his wife as a shield. But more often I am hearing concerns that the attack was just, you know, unfair, the whole sordid 38-minute attack. Poor, poor bin Laden. Will you set me straight, please?

Dr. Hurd replies: 

Some people claim there never was, never can be and never will be a land of individualism and individualists. The founding and spectacular rise of the United States will forever render this claim untrue.

However, there is a myth afoot today that America still is that nation. Just because America once was an individualist nation, it is assumed that it still is, and indeed must always be.