He wasn't in Afghanistan after all. Well, I never! So, why the hell are we?
As for the crowd-pleasing reaction from Hamas, as with the apparent rapprochement between it and Fatah, I will share in the outrage when all those who express it also do so about the governing role of Sinn Féin, and about the Far Left and Far Right backgrounds of numerous leading politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, and about each and all of the unsavoury elements to whose legislative will we are subject in the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers, and about the Islamist terrorist war against Russia, and about the taking out of major bulwarks against Islamist terrorism in Iraq and, putatively, Syria.
Don't hold your breath for that. But you might as well for the reprisals after today. I'd be surprised if they had not already begun. What's that you say? We had to get him because of 9/11? You mean the Saudi attack on the United States? The event that we long ago ceased to mention as we dreamt up ever more far-fetched excuses for the war in Afghanistan. With Osama bin Laden dead, we have finally run out of them. It is very high time indeed to get out, and never again to go anywhere near the Graveyard of Empires.
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Verily, the Mossad Martyr of the Telavivagraph.
ReplyDeleteWashington will change the reason for being in Afghanistan from "fighting terrorism" to "bringing the people democracy". That's what happened with Iraq!
ReplyDeleteI seem to be the only American not celebrating; I see no reason to, not until the troops are out.
Good points. Unfortunately, I have noticed that many American politicians and pundits seem to be calling for an escalation of the “War on Terror,” which I can only assume means more interventions in the Muslim world.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that puzzles me is that 4 helicopters landed on the roof of this prominent building (or in the compound, it doesn't matter which), a 30 to 40 minute firefight then took place, a helicopter was ablaze, the largest Pakistani military academy was only about a kilometre away, and yet nobody there was interested enough to wonder what was the mayhem that was going on down the road. And the second thing that puzzles me is why no one in the TV media has asked this most obvious question (or have I missed this on one of the channels?).
ReplyDeleteIn this most serious situation I must admit I had to laugh when I heard that the code word to announce the killing of Bin Laden was 'Geronimo'. Here we have the Yanks entering a foreign country without informing the authorities, engaging in a pitched battle and killing everyone in a fortified compound, then shouting 'Geronimo' in triumph back to the Commander in Chief. Just wonderful. John Wayne would have loved it.