05-04-2011, 03:46 AM
Gutenberg wrote:
Bin Laden absolutely should not have entered the Publishers' Clearing House sweepstakes. Bad mistake. Once you're on a mailing list you're on everybody's mailing list.
Seriously. The conspiracy theories are laughable. Under Obama the services were able to get Bin Laden largely because they are not stretched so dangerously thin. Bush, when faced with a monstrous crime by Al Qaeda, chose to wander off and fight someone else entirely. Obama took the fight to Al Qaeda, concentrating the troops in and on Afghanistan and running some pretty unpopular drone attacks in Pakistan. But he's the first President to put a dent in Al Qaeda. He should get credit for that. He made some very hard and risky decisions.
"And, almost as happily, I can report that I also completely underestimated the capacity of America's erstwhile "peace community" for turning on a dime and embracing the kind of all-American xenophobic flag-waving bloodlust they only recently decried. So today I stand proudly with my new friends of the formerly antiwar left in a mindlessly jingoistic salute to President Obama for an extralegal military assassination well done."
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/201...-back.html