Image via WikipediaWhat a surprise this morning as I awakened; Osama bin Laden was finally killed.
We could have killed him a long time ago when we had him corned in Bora Bora , Afghanistan but alas our brilliant President Bush decided to call our troops away from capturing or killing Osama to go invade Iraq
This brainless move on the part of Bush allowed bin Laden to escape our grasp and strengthen his al-Qaida organization and kill a bunch more innocent people; I hope Bush can sleep at night.
Anyway, today the world is a better place without bin Laden. Some say he was no longer an active leader in al-Qaida and was only a symbol and I disagree with that and judging by how big the compound was where he was hiding, how well defended and all those computers there, I think he had a huge role in the terrorist organization; too bad that bin Laden had time to destroy all the hard drives in the computers because they were probably laden with names and places we could have used to wipe out the organization.
Maybe some of our computer whizzes can still get some names off those drives.
Puzzling and potentially problematic is that bin-Laden’s compound was only 2 hours from Pakistan’s capital Islamabad; one would think that someone should have noticed him that close to the capital…hmmmmmm.
Glad we did not bungle the operation by getting others involved. One helicopter was lost which reminded me of Carter’s failed attempt at rescuing the hostages in Iran
I do know they dumped him into an ocean somewhere which is very smart just hope they got all the evidence they needed to prove to the world that it was really him and that he was really dead.
The fact that the Navy Seal Team Six went into a foreign country to kill Osama signals to the world and other bad guys, that we are willing to go anywhere at anytime to kill terrorists; you cannot hide forever.
What impact will Osama’s death have? Well, it can only make President Obama look better in the eyes of Americans make the CIA look half-way competent, makes Republicans like Palin and others, who did not mention the president’s role in this affair, even more stupid than they are already and maybe, just maybe it will demoralize al-Qaida operatives and the whole organization to get sloppy and therefore more vulnerable.
Some are already bracing for the “revenge” attacks on us but I am skeptical many will occur.
I think Osama’s death is good for Islam and all the Muslims trying to distance their religion and themselves from what the world calls “Islamic Terrorism”.
For now, let’s just be happy we got him.
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