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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Osama Bin Laden



The Late Mr. Osama Bin Laden

The end of Osama Bin Laden is one of those stories that is so juicy that if you are a blogger and you don’t treat it, people will ask what’s wrong with you. I am moved to write because I have long felt that he was not living in a cave, nor was he living a solitary deprived sort of life.

I was fairly certain that he was living in a place with electricity that allowed him acess to a television, and to be able to record his messages. I also thought that he had the comforts of home. However, in my thinking, I was sure that some powerful war lord had put him up in his compound in Afganistan, and that he probably had the comfort of women as well.

The foundation for such thinking was that the hunt for him had gone on far too long, and to envision anybody so committed that they would live like a hermit in a cave, especially as he was a rich man, for all these past years simply goes against the grain of human nature.

Now, he is no more! He may have been directing Al Quedea all these years from his comfortable hideout, although they didn’t seem to place too high a priority on cleanliness, but we have to be amazed by how determined the U.S. was in getting their man. No matter that he was holed up inside another country. Just go right on in an get him. The U.S. might makes it right.

I recall President Obama saying early in his administration that if he had actionable intelligence inside Pakistan he would follow that through. People are slowly coming to realise that although he might be a very moral man, he does mean what he says, most of the time.

America is very indignant about the fact that it was attacked on its own soil. Some people came into the country and carried out some outrageous actions that killed a number of its residents. Presumably those were people who felt that they were morally right to take the actions they did, just as America probably feels the same way when it invades someone else's territory. America always feels that it acts by taking the high road, and that history will judge it to have always have been morally justified.

I’m certain that it does try to be on the side of right, but it’s all in the eye of the beholder whether that’s correct or not. In the case of Bin Laden the SEALS went in to kill him. Period! Two taps to the head and American’s Most Wanted man got an X across his picture. Spare the paperwork.

My, how the world has changed!

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