Some Good News on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
6. American foreign policy wonks might conceivably begin to figure out that Pakistan, which clearly furnished protection and resources to Osama, is not a reliable ally, or indeed is no ally at all. The administration would hypothetically arrive at an understanding of how the real world works and in the process save itself billions of dollars in wasted subsidies to the Pakistani government. It may also feel the need to reassess its entire Middle East policy and its misguided outreach to the Muslim umma, which come at the cost of blood, treasure, and increased Islamic misprision. Admittedly, though, this is a very slender hope.
7. Hollywood directors and thespians may find it necessary to revise their fashionable sentiments and production agenda, and reconsider their lockstep tendency to cast America as the villain of the piece. They might at long last produce a few believable movies. Perhaps they will now take seriously Viktor Frankl’s recommendation that the Statue of Liberty on the east coast should be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
These are only some of the potential benefits that leap to mind as a result of Osama bin Laden’s belated erasure. Doubtless, there are others. But it’s a start.
One more positive aspect of bin Laden’s death:
8) This totally debunks the far-left’s view of the world that violence solves nothing. Oh really? Well overwhelming violence took out one of the worst killers in the world and we did not have to rely on “diplomacy,” “negotiations,” or appeasing the Pakistanis to get bin Laden. Maybe the far left will learn something from that.
The Left already knows “it”. They butcher 1,500,000 innocent, unborn babies each year for fun and profit. They promote fellatio and sodomy and other homosexual perversions. Mao, Hitler, Stalin and other Leftists have murdered dozens of millions of innocents. They are in love with violence, especially against the helpless. They are predators looking for victims; not gladiators looking for opponents. Your point is well made!
And unspoken yet obvious:
We are saved from the repercussions of his capture:
1) threasts of kills and and potential kidnappings (for trade) of every American, esp. high level officials and our military abroad
2) The sticky issue of where we put him…Leavenworth? Gitmo? Political nightmare there.
3) Public trial? Military Trial? Or just public hanging? After KSM, not sure Holder could go thru that again, poor boy.
All in all, he got what he deserved, and we got justice. It’s a good day.
With all due respect, when does Eric Holder get what he deserves? Has the concept of accountability completely been forgotten in America?
Yes.
Sorry for the indefinite antecedent. And the delay in response. I meant, OBL got what he deserved, not Holder!
One rotten, evil, filthy, disgusting monster at a time! We’ll get around to Holder, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, et al, eventually, but first we need to prosecute and execute the moslem mahdi in the White House. And we must do it quickly, legally, and morally. Or. one day. we will find ourselves enslaved to the islamic jihadists.
Let the Middle East Hate Us, Provided That They also Fear us
A comment slightly off point but related;
A great deal of rhetoric is being expended questioning if the SEALS shot an umarmed man. After doing a good deal of searching, moist of the pictures I found of UBL showed an AK assault weapon with an extended ammunition clip within arms reach, if not in his hands. Why would SEALS assume or chance that he would not have a weapon at hand when they stormed his compound? How fitting it is that the last thing UBL saw as he died was a weapon held in the hands of an American fighting man!!
How fitting it is that the last thing UBL saw as he died was a weapon held in the hands of an American fighting man!!
Fitting. Extremely fitting.
And I sincerely hope the SEAL was from New York and said, “Hi! I’m from New York and I’m here to help.”
Nah, you forget this was our President’s deal. He said “I’m from Chicago, and you’re going to be feeding the fishes.”
Liberals want the man to have a “fighting chance.” But he had as much of a fighting chance as the unarmed baby in the womb while being aborted at a Planned Parenthood “clinic.” Or one may say that a he was “equalized” to the poor victims of 911. I am all for that kind of “equalité!”
Liberals want to be loved, to be labeled “fair” by every barbarian and nutcase living in this sad planet. Liberals dream of the Earth being some sort of finishing school filled with well behaved ladies. This world is not that. They will never love the US. The closest thing to a compliment we are going to get is ENVY. Which by the way is the most sincere kind of compliment.
We ride by, they bark.
While the reports are conflicting, it seems obvious that Osama had some time to know what was coming. By some reports, he wasn’t killed until more than 20 minutes after the start of the assault. Good. When those SEALs finally found him, I hope Osama was very afraid.
Among the many wise things George Orwell said, there’s this: “We sleep well at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.”
The Navy SEALs and their brothers in arms are our rough men. I salute them all.
Finally, I smile at the thought of Osama’s body being converted to crab excrement. It seems a fitting end to that miserable excuse for a human being. Too bad more of society’s mass murderers don’t meet the same fate.
Larry, good points.
Rough men, yes, but virtuous…
“willing to do violence on OUR BEHALF” and not in their own craven lust for blood.
That is the Honor of the American Soldier. They indeed protect us from those who seek every hour to slit our children’s throats, yet they would never dream of harming a sleeping child themselves.
Violence and Virtue.
The Goal, the pinnacle, of being a “real man” is to be ABLE to be rough strong and ruthless, yet never lose yourself to violence. It is often a necessary means to a just end, but it is not your vice, your weakness, or your master.
YOU are ITS master.
And that is the difference between us and “them”…that fanatically immature tribe of killers, seduced forever by the simple thrill of “rage”….A culture and a religion based on the Wretched Violence of a corrupted thief, criminal, pedophile, and murderer…a legacy of violence without discipline, without honor, without discretion, reason or control.
This is the distinction that cowardly leftists of America cannot stand. They cannot stand the reality that Mastering violence is a difficult and honorable VIRTUE among a free people….a deep and serious responsibility, verily REQUIRED of the mature, the sound, and the strong among us….something which they are simply unable to ever BE themselves, with their flabby muscles and their shabby souls…
So they condemn ALL violence, and nano-analyze every act and step taken by us in its Just Employment. And ultimately, demand we bow….to terrorists abroad, to criminals on our streets, and to bullies in our schools.
Zero Tolerance for all, to soothe the dysfunctional, self loathing psyche of the few.
I HOPE you have a blog, sir. With that kind of rhetoric, you should. (That’s a compliment, not an insult.) If not a blog, at VERY least a facebook page.
In short, BRAVO!
Sorry Kathy,
No blog, no facebook, no social media…just an average guy with (what used to be) average common sense.
Comments here are the only place to find me on line…’cept for some motorcycle parts on Ebay, I’m too busy to “real things” to push so many buttons
Great Post.
Mr. Soloway will have to wait a long time for Hollywood to change its politics or the State Department to change its Mid-East policy. Kneejerk leftism is not a political philosophy; it is a (diseased)state of mind.
From where I sit, Bin Laden is the gift that keeps giving. At the cost of a mere three thousand lives, OBL rang an alarm bell that woke the world to the Islamist threat. Absent the events of 9/11, the Islamization of the West would have been accomplished by immigration and birthrate with no resistance.
After 9/11 OBL became Goldstein the spy upon whom we could all focus our hate. Even the lefties (most of them, anyway)couldn’t support him.
Then there’s OBL’s luxury hideyhole which demonstrates that Valerie Plame and Michael Scheuer to the contrary, there are at least some in our intelligence services who are genuinely intelligent–at least intelligent enough to realize that a fabulously wealthy man with a cane and a dialysis machine can’t be living in a cave.
Finally there’s the administration’s post assassination timidity, fumbling and obfuscation to remind us that this singular success is anomalous
Given the seriousness of this whole business, I have to temper my amusement of the left’s struggle to justify what was needed to be done, with their bipolar, continual accusations against President Bush. The “War is not the Answer” signs seem to have disappeared, Wolf Blitzer is praising the ‘take out’ of Bin Laden, and the Democratic party is, at least temporarily, ‘good’ with the unilateral action against a killer. Time will tell just how long this lasts with these people, and the underlying fear of many is that it wo’t last long with Obama. He is already distancing himself from the war-like response against Bin Laden, patronizing the Americans by warning them all that ‘this is not the time to spike the football.” Of course, we all know that it is just the time to spike the football… and the question is why isn’t the rest of the world joining us?
Can you imagine FDR not rejoicing at the death of Hitler? Does anyone believe he would have been concerned about how the German people would react?
We need representatives in DC that understand when the US is being threatened and how to respond to evil. Obama has done the right thing by killing Bin Laden, but I’m not convinced he really believes that. Now that is frightening.
Don’t you mean Truman? FDR died before Hitler.
Bin Laden was p*ssed off at the US when the CIA left his mujahadeen in the lurch. IMO, revenge was his raison d’etre, NOT Islamic supremacy (although it was a useful weapon).
You are enlightened.
Or a myrmidon.
there was a video floating around here suggesting the spoiled and pampered pre-adolescent bin laden was upset at the toy in his happy meal….
The best news is that the world knows once again that, even with a cringing narcissistic libwit idiot in the white house, Ameria will still come and getcha, no matter how long it takes, no matter the expense, and no matter how hard the chattering classes work to stop it.
I love the fact that the exemplars of the American spirit, US Seals, put the hammer on Osama. It wasn’t some curly lipped snivelling DOJ lawyer, not some obese hypocitical movie maker, not some effete whining oppressed pick-pocket…oh no….it was a red-blooded, fire in the eye type-A American Avenger. Here’s to you guys and your millions of mates in the US armed forces.
I’m just hoping that the movie version has Gary Sinise playing a leading role. And maybe Jack Nicholson reprising his role as Co. Nathan R. Jessop from “A FEW GOOD MEN” where in he defended the need for “men on that wall”.
Of course the Hollywood version will be a movie about a poor diabetic brutally murdered by U.S. military thugs rather than the professional, precise surgical strike against an enemy of the U.S.
There is no victory in death. Death is not to be celebrated. This is not the end. It’s good that a leader of a group is no longer able to lead, but it is no celebration of death.
“Proreason”, you sound clueless.. You disrespect the president then you say “good job, America will getcha”.. How do you want it? The seals didn’t do this alone, neither did the CIA.. or the U.S. Armed Forces.. I will give you a hint, don’t congratulate a soldier and say good job.. because believe me, the things we soldiers have to do and endure, is many times things we don’t want to do.. But we do it.. It’s difficult to live with killing.. Very difficult.. It’s not easy, no matter who it is.. not easy at all..
And we don’t look to be congratulated because we truly wish there was a better way.. and that’s the truth..
We soldiers don’t celebrate death, we understand it at times as a necessary evil..
Even soldiers can be idiots…if indeed you are a soldier and not a teenage girl.
Hey, watch your mouth!
My Niece was a “teenage girl” when she got her first KIA with a .50 cal from the top of a duce and a half on the road between Basra and Mosul.
Remember:
All girls HAVE one, but not all girls ARE one!
“It’s difficult to live with killing.. Very difficult.. It’s not easy, no matter who it is.. not easy at all..”
OK, this tells me youre a still good guy with your humanity intact.
Good for you..good for the world, in fact.
But “living” with killing bad guys is no problem at all for alot of people…
Me, my dad, HIS dad…my niece…The stress and adrenaline of a life-threatening experience burns a permanent path through your nervous system, no doubt. You are not the same afterwards, thats true…
But the morality of “doing it” to an a-hole who deserves it?
Never, ever was a problem for me…Or my Dad, or “Pop” or even my niece.
Evil is, and evil comes. Always had the option to simply give up, knowing they would have been treated well.
But they wanted to play…so they paid.
Aint no lost sleep in MY familiy over their fate.
I’m sorry to hear that, don’t know what your training was like.. But our first initiative is to preserve life if at all possible.. This training runs near and dear to your blood-stream and your heart, because it can save lives..
If preserving life is not possible then we move to different measures.. We never have orders to shoot on site.. Never! (this is in no way saying anything negative about the killing of bin laden, I am sure they didn’t shoot him on site and a attempt was made to preserve his life and bring him in, bin laden resisted)…
I don’t know what your experience is, but if you can live with that, then you are cut from a different cloth then those in my division/unit.. “Trigger Happy” people are not good in the unit I am a part of.. Not saying you are trigger happy..
Although, it doesn’t matter if a man was evil or not.. It’s hard to carry that throughout your life.. If you say you sleep fine, then I’m glad for you, but my Pops, and brother and I don’t and we all had to do it for this country.. It’s hard.. If you for one minute believe it’s easy, give it time.. it may catch up with you..
“.. We never have orders to shoot on site.. Never!”
Sir, are you SURE you were in the ARMED Forces?
Never ordered to shoot on sight?
Sir, what do you call an AMBUSH?…its a standard tactic…its has been trained for, practiced by, and employed using U.S. soldiers since DAY ONE.
Ambush…lie in wait, shoot on sight…no requirement to use a bullhorn to shout “surrender OR ELSE!” before “shooting on sight”
Duh.
War is a cold and evil place.
We fight cold and evil people…
Hitler, Tojo, Stalin, Mao, Ho Chi Min, Arrafat, Bin ladin.
Folks who catch babies on bayonette tips, rape entire cities. Use mass starvation as weapons, and commit themselves to Undustrial Grade Genocide. Lock women and children in churches and set them on fire…slice stewadesses throats with box cutters, and behead pleading prisoners on video.
Confronting them has been a frightening experience at times for my family. They are indeed, very dangerous animals to mess with.
Some of us have been killed.
Mothers in my family have always cried at the waste of war.
But we are not trigger happy.
We just recognize Evil.
And we have been willing to protect the innocent from its claws.
With our very own lives (not someone elses), if need be.
And we sleep just fine at night, thank you very much
I’ll tidy up my fox hole and share my ammo with you anytime, soldier. As long as you can keep quiet; Your stories are too riveting.
Semper Fi!
Yeah, I’m Armed Forces.. I can see, my experience is far superior to yours.. You talk a big game.. You say the tuff talk.. I’m with the unit that doesn’t say a word..
See an Ambush is only a military tactic.. It means that a group lays in wait in a concealed area to perform a sneak attack.. It is not at all necessary to shoot in an Ambush it all depends on tactic and the force you are Ambushing..
A raid is completely different than an Ambush.. But I am not here as your training officer.. These are things that you should be aware of.. If you were or are a leader.. I’m a leader and my first objective is to bring my men back alive.. POINT BLANK– PERIOD!..
Shooting is not always the answer, shooting can cause death of your own men, stealth is a tactic that is far more useful and advance then going in guns blazing.. It all depends on the situation..
If you had orders to “Shoot On Site”, then possibly your comand had orders to do so..
In my unit, we are covert..
Besides there are R.O.E. and the possibility of going in guns blazing I can assure will cost friendly lives..
But who am I.. you are the real deal..
Shoot on Sight.. Is a policy and it has to be applied properly.. It is not a order that can just be given at the word of mouth.. I have to question your experience.. There are parameters that have to be reached or met before a shoot on sight policy can be put into effect..
Now returning fire to someone who is shooting at you is different.. Shoot on Sight means you see them you shoot them and it’s a policy not a given order, parameters have to be met..
Believe me just going in shooting could cause you to end up court martialed..
But who am I.. You again sir are the REAL DEAL>> !
@ A Soldier
u are right shooting on sight is a policy and rules have to be followed. i am in the military and we have rules of engagement. there are soldier now who are court martialed for shooting iraqi’s on sight
Speak for yourself, Miss Melodramatic of 2011. Live enemies will kill you. Dead ones can’t. The good ones are the dead ones. Got it?
The Navy Seals killed Osama Bin Laden – a job well and bravely done. Thank you. Osama bin laid ‘n the ocean – good thing and good bye.
The hordes of hand wringing wailers and their tsunami of crocodile tears can do nothing about it. Why even pay attention to them? – the hockey playoffs are in the second round.
David, some thoughts on your wonderful essay
1)I don’t know which other sleazy mass murderer Carter booked in his day timer, but if he wishes to calendar OBL at his current address, in hell, THAT appointment has been scheduled for Carter already by a higher authority.
(And, if Carter wishes to visit OBL at his temporary residence, there may be a boat owner or two who would gladly offer to water taxi him for free.)
2)Can one put their Nobel Peace prize on the same shelf as their snuff film DVD?
3)Leftists consider Bret Watson asking Obama a follow-up question an “enhanced interrogation technique”.
4) Does the next President have to go around the world apologizing for the acts of this one? And, if and when al Qaeda/radical Islamists retaliate…can the new President whine for two years that he “inherited” these problems?
5)Since we know that radical Islamists have already promised retaliation, can we have our DOJ run guns across our sieve-like borders that the Israelis can train sharks and bugs to detect and attack the carrier?
6) Does anyone other than me wonder what the sermon would have been at the “Ground Zero mosque” the day after OBL was extended an invitation to the afterlife?
7)If we cut ties with Pakistan, what happens to all our 7-11′s?
8)If it is “imperative that nations speak with one voice” on military action in this administration, before action can be taken by the U.S>… is there an exclusion rider for Pakistan?
7) The German Chancellor scolded that this may have violated international law and invaded OBL’s human rights. Not sure if this pronouncement was made from Buchenwald or Dachau. Please forgive us, only 5,999,999 more people and we will grasp your syllabus on the subject.
8)Hollywood will start making movies where America isn’t always at fault, where the military isn’t always moved by evil motive, where corporations aren’t greedy…when leftists lose the war to their radical Islamic bedfellows…and America is ruled by sharia law.
Pakistan has The Bomb, so, if we dump ‘em, we’ve got to denuke ‘em first.
Otherwise all the crazy ragheads will be nuking everybody their delivery systems can reach. And their easiest delivery route to us is over the mexican border.Or to chinese warehouses in California port cities. Or in inspection free diplomatic parcels. Or in the body cavities of deranged jihadists. Or in parcel deliveries to government offices. Or vis vehicles parked outside those offices. Or…..
Bill Whittle says, in one his Trifecta items, that we can never underestimate the true, grinding ignorance of the Movie Industry. His example? Cher believes that the faces at Mount Rushmore were not carved, they are a natural formation!
There.
Case closed.
I just have to ask.
Since they have already vowed to destroy the USA and since they in their own words have been at war with us for years, how exactly do they intend to escalate?
Kill us in a more cowardly fashion? Behead us in a more brutal and uncivilized way?
Refuse to give us oral sex?
Anyone?
When we die we still get the 72 virgins, but they all look like Joy Behar.
Ozzy..
With good humor to my friends in Dixie…
Its sort of like when my “good ol’ boy” Marines would say say:
“I’m tellin ya, Sarge, the SHalths gonna do it a-gai-un!”
My response was always..
“what, SPONTATEOUSLY cumbust this time?”