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To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (73906)	5/4/2011 3:07:20 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219648

<It may need to be done. It may be justified. But...> Achilles didn't just kill Hector outside the walls of Troy. He then roped the corpse behind his chariot, and dragged it around for days. Parades and celebrations after a victory, especially involving dishonoring the bodies of the defeated, is an ancient tradition. This behavior is probably hardwired in the chimp or lizard parts of our brain. Right after 9/11, there were joyful spontaneous celebrations in some parts of the world. Now it's America's turn. What most Americans feel about Osama's death, is precisely the same as what Jihadists felt after 9/11. This is natural, and should be expected, given that we share 97% of our DNA with the other apes, and recent evidence indicates most of us are part Neanderthal: The burly Ice Age hunters known as Neanderthals, a long-extinct species, survive today in the genes of almost everyone outside Africa, according to an international research team who offer the first molecular evidence that early humans mated and produced children in liaisons with Neanderthals... online.wsj.com