Posted on 05/01/2011 8:37:37 PM PDT by SquarePants
Right now I'm listening to CBS coverage of the death and recovery of Osama Bin Laden. One of the talking heads just mentioned that "this is huge" and said this closes "a chapter in the war on terror."
Bin Laden's demise is welcome news, for sure. I say that as a New Yorker, and also as someone who lost a family member in 9/11. But is it really "huge"? In the scope of global Islamic terror, does the death of Osama Bin Laden really matter?
Al Qaeda isn't like a family business - it's a worldwide movement, that's spawned countless autonomous, operationally independent spinoff groups, whose only ties to Al Qaeda are ideological. The Muslim Brotherhood is taking over Egypt. Al Qaeda allied rebel troops are being supported by NATO in Libya......
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He was like Carlos the Jackal his day was over.
Of course it matters. Obama now has street cred on the terror front.
This gives Obamao perfect ammunition to pull out of Afghanistan. After 10 years and with no end in sight, IMHO that wouldn't be all bad. Let the moslem vermin build up again and then go in and nuke them next time around once they're more concentrated or even attempt to try anything. History has not been kind to any power that attempts to stay in Afghanistan for any extended period of time.
Osama has not been a significant figure for years.... the event, however, is major.
1. It allows O to take credit (I did what Bush could not).
2. It gives a reason to finally withdraw from Afghanistan.
Likely something else too...
Saddam: dead. Osama: dead. Want to cross the United States?
Someone needs to pour cold water on Geraldo.
Matter? Yes it does matter. It matters in several ways.
1. AlQaeda will increase its activity against the United States.
2. bin Laden will be hailed as a martyr throughout the Islamic world.
3. Obama will try to take credit for it. Watch how many times he says “I” instead of “we” in his announcement.
4. The left will declare the end of the war on terror.
5. Trump will be pissed off that the networks interrupted Celebrity Apprentice. (I guarantee that was no accident.)
Matter? Yes it does matter. It matters in several ways.
1. AlQaeda will increase its activity against the United States.
2. bin Laden will be hailed as a martyr throughout the Islamic world.
3. Obama will try to take credit for it. Watch how many times he says “I” instead of “we” in his announcement.
4. The left will declare the end of the war on terror.
5. Trump will be pissed off that the networks interrupted Celebrity Apprentice. (I guarantee that was no accident.)
Get Al Zawahiri and you’ve done something.
Of course if Clinton had accepted Osama when the Sudan tried to hand him over, he'd be alive and waiting trial somewhere in the US, and 9/11 would never have happened...but we aren't supposed to talk about that because it doesn't reflect well on Bill Clinton.
war on terror is over
we can close gitmo and release the prisoners
/sarc
That’s a good way of putting it. He was basically just a figurehead at this point and this does very little in the big scheme of things. It’s good that he’s gone, although it might mean Obama’s reelection.
Well, I don;t feel any safer. Franky, I think the last ten years have seen much of the terrorism we need to be concerned with move from places like Pakistan and Afghanistan to places like Brooklyn and Detroit
On #5, my wife was very very pissed off.. They cut to NBC News right when they were going to tell who got fired.
Boom! That’s a winner!
For one thing, we won’t be hearing about how it was an inside job any more.
You can’t take credit for killing a bad guy, if he wasn’t a bad guy.
with Osama dead, we wont confuse him with Obama
well at least not the name
Did you catch his slip of the tongue about obama instead of osama?
LLS
Not a coincidence. Guaranteed.
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