Forget the Bin Laden Pics: There’s No Time To Lose with Egypt and Iran
I didn’t get the news of Osama bin Laden’s demise at the hands of Navy SEALs until Monday morning, so when I did listen to the president’s address it had already been sliced and diced into the best soundbites. What jumped out immediately: “Justice has been done.”
To me this wasn’t simply an appropriate rhetorical coda to Obama’s remarks. It also completed a couplet begun almost ten years ago by his predecessor, George W. Bush. Shortly after bin Laden killed over three thousand people in lower Manhattan, Bush promised Congress and the nation that we would “bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies.” Personally, I am pleased the special forces who invaded Obama’s compound in Abbottabad chose the latter option and not the former.
John Brennan was quick to point out that the mission was to take bin Laden alive, but after what this administration has put us through on the proposed venues for Khalid Sheik Mohammad’s trial I’ll take a kill shot over a court martial any day. For most of us, bin Laden was a bad guy of mythological proportions who deserved that unique brand of eye-for-an-eye American frontier justice doled out on the streets of Tombstone or in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago. The black hat is toes up. Roll credits.
Of course, in succumbing to this tempting scenario I play right into the hands of both the Clinton and Obama administrations, who have tried since the early 1990s to convince us that the so-called War on Terror was not so much a military operation as it was a criminal enterprise. Thus al-Qaeda was really a gang of outliers and rogues preying off the society they supposedly had been organized to protect. And the model employed by federal and local law enforcement to bring down organized crime families in this country requires taking out the bosses — or as I am sure you have heard more than once, “cutting off the head of the snake.” This can be a very effective technique against individuals like John Gotti or the Clanton brothers, but is woefully inadequate when you are combating an ideology.
Don’t get me wrong. Al-Qaeda has sustained a serious body blow and the Obama administration is to be commended for actually delivering on a promise made by both Bush and Clinton. But as I listened to the president and then the chorus of pundits that followed, I couldn’t help recalling another famous phrase designed to reassure the home front:
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.
So said Paul Bremer, the American provisional authority in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had just been found in a hidey-hole in Tikrit by another elite team of American troopers and most of us wanted to believe that without their leader the enemy would give up and go home. That was December of 2003. Four years later, Senator Harry Reid was declaring the war in Iraq lost and newly elected Senator Barack Obama was opposing the troop surge in Anbar Province.
Hopefully, what President Obama and Congress and all of us still watching at home are finally waking up to is that the Middle East has been in a state of ideological warfare which predates all of its past leaders and will still rage long after its present leaders are gone. To the dedicated Islamists that are consolidating political power from Tunisia to Turkey, this struggle has never been conceived as a two-hour John Wayne movie. It is Dar-al-Harb vs. Dar-al-Islam, a holy war still going strong after fourteen hundred years.
This is why I, unlike many of my former colleagues in talk radio, am not ruminating about whether photos of the dead Osama should be released to the public, or what the Pakistani government knew and when they knew it. I want to know what the people in Cairo think, because the war we are really fighting has been headquartered there since last October when Mohammed Badie — the new Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood — called for renewed jihad against the West and Israel.
Consider recent events, none of which have anything to do with the timely death of Osama bin Laden and everything to do with restoring Islamic hegemony first to the Middle East and then throughout the world.
Ummmmmmmm – you have to have power before you can consolidate it.
I gotta go with the Taliban on this one;
EVERYBODY KNOWS OBAMA IS A CONSUMMATE LIAR.
Why should anyone believe HE is responsible for killing Bin Laden without proof?
The media will play along with any story the Obama regime comes out with. Why should the American People believe any if their bull crap?
They’d do ANYTHING to pump up Obama’s approval rating; Even lie about something as important as this.
If Obama lies about this, then whatever, that is his constant politics. If Seal Team 6 is lieing, then the country is broken. I would go with dead.
Involving ourselves in the Arab Spring is like trying to teach manners to Brer Rabbits tar baby. The more you hit, the more you stick.
I’m not disagreeing with you JED. My statement was meant to goad the sycophants.
Examining the photo of the “situation room” where Obama was sitting watching the event with his closest advisors and military, shows me that Obama was not in charge of this operation. The military was.
Obama has deep feelings and affection for muslims, and he’s showing it by constantly trying to appease them.
Please note in last sentence of second paragraph, it reads: “Obama’s compound”, where as it should be: “OSama’s compound”. Just wanted to point out for proper correction. Good article by the way.
It doesn’t matter whether Obama tells us the truth or not (usually the latter) since the witless West doesn’t have any idea of what it is facing. There is almost no one in the West that understands the psychology, morality, ethics or religion of the Islamic majority of the Middle East. You can number on the fingers of your hand those in the West that are familiar with the Koran, abrogation, the Hadith, or the four schools of (so-called) Islamic jurisprudence and their rulings. Muslims live in another moral and ethical universe. Their religion tells them to lie to infidels (us) to advance the cause of Islam. The witless West is in free fall; it plays in a self destructive sandbox, not having any idea what is coming its way. The West is a dead man walking.
Nice summation. Would just like to point out that the Khomeini quote also occured well before the Mossadegh assassination – the event the left likes to reference as the source of so-called Iranian rage against the US. Also, in confirming the date of the assassination I came across a page chronicling an entire decade of iranian assassinations perpetrated by the fedayeen (Khomeini’s outfit before the revolution, though at the time he was a low level cleric/operator). Interesting read:
http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/irans-decade-of-assassinations/
There’ll be no progress in the 1400 year old war until America elects a president who doesn’t claim Islam has always been a part of America and who doesn’t need 16 hours to decide whether to kill the world’s number one Islamic terrorist.
Correction: Mossadegh “Coup” not “assassination.”
We preach to the choir – Listen to Fred and Mrs. Fred – get the word out – enough with the deflection – back to the table – it IS a 1400 year war and “they” think generational – “we” think 5 minutes and then we tire.
STOP BEING ELOI!!!!! TIME TO GO MORLOCK AND OPEN A FEW CANS OF WHOOP ASS!!
Nice piece!
How long do you think before this kind of intelligent analysis and great reportage appears in the Lamestream Media?
How many intelligent people are reading this verses how many are not? The point is – it’ll take another and even greater catastrophe than Pearl Harbor or 9/11 to awaken the even more enormous sleeping giant of America that currently suffers from bloat, infection, ignorance and narcolepsy. Hold onto your ipods and stock up on on cheeseburgers, America.
Excellent piece. However the unthinkable truth is that the “Oil Cartel” and the West mainly the EU countries specially Britain (because of their bigger need for oil and gas) need Islamist take over of the entire mid east and Africa. That’s why they have supported and pushed the downfall of secular Mubarak, Ghaddafi and the Shah some 32 years ago and instead put in place Islamic systems by the way of terrorist groups such as Moslem brotherhood, Hammas in Lebanon and the ayatollahs in Iran. Remember Khomeini regime was crafted, supported and brought into place by Britain, Carter, by the direction of “Oil Cartel” 32 years ago.
That’s still all the reason that West still silently supports and ayatollah regime occupying Iran and Iranians, and also Syria’s Assad regime the puppet of the ayatollahs. Why you may ask? Well these 2 terrorist regimes are Islamic and therefore subjugates its repressed citizens to its totalitarian Islamic laws, thereby sucking any air of freedom out of their lungs. A free people is death wish to the Oil Cartel, and Europe’s immense need for cheap oil. It is much easier for the West (always mainly Europe with US’s support)to maneuver around Islamic regimes, offering them security, power and bribed money through oil deals, and many other deals in exchange for cheap oil and a free flow of oil, than having to deal with free people with their free democratic institutions.
For all these reasons Europe and Oil Cartel will continue to spread the Islamic take overs of the mid east and Africa for their self interest.
It is only we the free people who should come out and expose the deadly conspiracies of these shameful policies. We should also cut our consumption of oil and speak out loud and louder…
Live/work in the DC area. Glad to see your 60 days are up Mr. Grandy.
I used to listen to you (and Mrs. Fred on Fridays) during my commute to DC every morning. I lost WMAL when you left there and as a bonus I don’t have to listen to advertising for Thompson Windows.
It looks like only you and Glenn Beck actually see what’s going on in the world.