I know now what sweet revenge feels like.  I suppose I should feel guilty, but I feel no regrets.  A family member was murdered by this man and friends of both my wife and I were also murdered.  Thousands of others were murdered.  A mass murderer, Osama bin Laden, is dead.

This is a special posting to my blog.  I just need to get these ideas off my chest.  Most people know me as a big, harmless teddy bear, but if I had ever met the mad dog Osama, I would try to kill him myself.  I would put myself in the mind frame of an oncology surgeon extirpating a deadly cancer from the body politic of the world.  I’m sure similar emotions were in the heads of those Navy SEALs.  I probably would have failed–they got the job done.

Just a few days ago we visited the 9/11 memorial at Eagle Rock Reservation here in New Jersey.  It’s a beautiful place that overlooks the New Jersey suburbs all the way to the Manhattan skyline. The memorial is placed where hundreds stood and watched as the twin towers came down that fateful day.  While I was there I was wondering if I would ever see the mass murderer brought to justice.

I’m against the death penalty in general, but two things justifies it in this case.  First, if we believe the news reports (always questionable these days), bin Laden was taken down in a firefight—he wasn’t executed.  Without knowing whether bin Laden or the people with him in that compound were wearing explosives, the Navy SEALs did what they are trained to do—shoot for the head.  They took Osama’s body.  After confirming it was bin Laden, he was given a Muslim burial at sea.

I’m not sure whether that burial was deserved, if it indeed happened.  My family member didn’t have a decent burial.  There wasn’t anything left to bury.  No, I would have thrown bin Laden into a garbage dump—that’s what he was, just garbage.  I generally respect Islam as I respect all religions—bin Laden was not a true Muslim.  There is nothing in the Koran condoning what he did.

Second, bin Laden was the leader of the second most notorious gang of cutthroats and mass murderers in human history (the Nazis were the worst).  If captured, he would have been (1) an enemy combatant and (2) a war criminal.  Maybe the Hague would not sentence him to death (the judges there never seem to have any cojones), but he deserved to be hanged as much as Saddam Hussein (who just murdered thousands of his own people, way down the list from the Nazis, al Qaeda, Pol Pot and his minions, etc).

No, I feel no regrets.  I do have questions.  Was there really a firefight?  Was he really buried at sea following Muslim tradition?  How could a DNA test be done so fast (they do it that fast on television, but in real life it doesn’t happen that way)?  Did Mr. Obama really decide to go with the SEALs over the safer bombing option?  If so, give him an A+ for showing some true grit.

The big question, though, is:  How is it that a multi-million dollar compound in a poor neighborhood, a compound only 1000 feet from the Pakistani military academy, not get noticed by the Pakistanis?  The big answer: they knew about it all along.  I’ve written about Pakistani duplicity before, almost on a par with the Saudi royal family.  This proves that we should cut them loose.

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” foreign policy towards the Middle East just doesn’t work.  Both the Saudis and Pakistanis hold out their right hand for American foreign aid and the left to radical jihadists that are trained in their madrasas.  Sorry, I don’t think we should do business that way.  Especially in Pakistan.

For Saudi Arabia, there is always the argument that we need their oil (the neocons beat on that drum all the time).  Libya is about oil.  Iraq was about oil.  Pakistan has no oil.  The argument for them is about them helping us against the Taliban.  BS!  Hiding bin Laden shows the kind of duplicity Pakistan practices.

Where bin Laden was found says it all.  Does Washington need the message written in neon in Times Square?  A foreign policy change is required.

 

‘Nough said.

 

 

 

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