Posted on 05/07/2007 5:40:16 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
I'm getting tired of being the only guy in the media who keeps beating this drum.
But I will keep beating nonetheless.
According to my calendar, just four months from now we will be marking the sixth anniversary of the biggest terrorist attack in history and the worst attack of any kind on American soil.
The mastermind of and inspiration for that attack is Osama bin Laden.
Yet, he still has not been captured or killed.
If there is one man in this world I do not want to see die of natural causes, it is bin Laden. And I think most Americans would agree with that.
Nevertheless, our top elected officials, including President Bush, demonstrate no particular concern about finding bin Laden. With all of the resources of the U.S. intelligence agencies, our spy satellites, our military infrastructure and our special forces, we have either been unable to find the perpetrator of this mass murder or unwilling.
Now a leading Republican presidential candidate affirms that we have better things to do with our time and energies than catch bin Laden.
Mitt Romney, the flip-flopping former governor of Massachusetts, says the U.S. would only be slightly safer if bin Laden were caught because another terrorist would rise to fill his shoes.
"It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars, just trying to catch one person," he explained.
Well, for starters, there would be no need to move heaven, because bin Laden is not there and never will be. I have that on good authority. So all we really have to do is move earth. In my opinion, we should move as much earth as we need to find bin Laden. Then we should cover him up in that earth as quickly as possible.
Honestly, I don't understand this view. Is it just politics? Do Bush and Romney fear the inability to find bin Laden will be held around the necks of Republicans like some kind of albatross?
It probably will be. So get busy. Rearrange priorities. There are few things more important to America than finding and punishing this miscreant and setting an example for those that might follow.
I'm surprised at the lack of logic being employed here by people like Romney and Bush.
It started with Bush, just seven months after Sept. 11, 2001, telling us it really wasn't all that important to find bin Laden. That signaled to me – and I'm sure to many other Americans and people around the world – that he was already giving up hope of ever finding him.
Now, I understand there are objectives beyond bin Laden.
But do we really have to give up on capturing or killing the man most closely associated with the worst terrorist attack in history and the biggest attack on American soil ever – just because there are other objectives?
I don't think so.
Should we stop focusing our efforts on getting bin Laden because others will take his place?
I don't think so.
I think it is totally invalid. It's warped thinking.
Is bin Laden more likely to gain recruits dead or alive? I suspect it's alive. I suspect every day that goes by with this monster still breathing other disturbed minds are seeking to join him in his jihad.
Most people want to live. I don't believe even most jihadists really want to give up their lives now and go to "paradise." Therefore, it behooves our cause to ensure bin Laden is punished in this life – not just the next.
Therefore, I echo my lonely cry: Get bin Laden!
He’s dead, Joe.
I wanna see a recent video of ole Binny. Maybe something where he mentions the election of Sarkozy in France or the Queen’s visit to the USA.
He’s at Starbucks in San Francisco enjoying a cafe latte with his friends!
Nowhere good, I can tell you.
No he’s not.
He is busy plotting the Democrats’ campaign strategy for 08.
I understand that desire...but not really his MO. Reality is Zarqawi never put out one video showing himself in the years we chased him around Iraq....(the only video that came out showing Zarqawi's face in Iraq....was only released weeks after an SOF raid recovered a copy of it.....and thus AQ put that version out knowing we already had it)....But Zarqawi was most certainly alive...until we killed him.
Right where we can watch him, tracking people who interact with him, and using that intelligence to take the Al Qaeda network apart from underneath him.
But hasn't made squat for quite some time.
It’s not too hard to find another similar bum with a dirty beard to star in those crappy home movies.
That is Western thinking - UBL remaining "alive" does more for the radical Muslim street (and the Stan/Pak border regions...regarding morale / recruitment) then any silly video would.....
It also appears quite evident....messaging for AQ has fallen under Zawahiri job title....
I’m not sure he’s still alive, but he’s been somewhere we can’t get at him, such as inside Pakistan - or Iran.
He and Fidel are enjoying Mojitos in Havana.
Without question some would have wanted to work such an angle for a time period after Sept 11th (if possible). And there is some reasonable rationale with such...
My experience tells me however, such an argument would have never won out.....UBL will have guns or a JDAM put on him at the very first minute we could do such....and not a minute later....
Those “silly” videos go a long way in convincing the “radical Muslim street” that he is indeed alive, and if he thought them silly he never would’ve made so many (in the early days after 9/11) in the first place. But again, nothing recently. Plus he looked like he was on his deathbed years ago when AQ videos were being produced seemingly every other week.
I disagree...he is the movement.
We nail him we deflate the AQ ballon...he knows that....and its why you don't see him making videos as frequent as you see Zawahiri putting them out.
Zawahiri is playing with fire releasing those tapes....they can be traced...we almost got him twice(Damadola and Chingai).
Binny is smart he is staying in the shadows.
See we are a nation who seems distracted at the present moment.....but you let word come we have killed the bastard....you we see America rejoice.
His is the one head America wants to see on a pike in Times Square....and Binny knows that..
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