So in the end Jack Bauer, and by Jack Bauer I mean the CIA has finally gotten Osama Bin Laden, which given the CIA and Bin Laden's history is basically the real life equivalent of Mr. Miyagi killing Daniel-san after giving him the skills to fight his way through three Karate Kids.
As someone who losts friends to the 9/11 bombings (and almost lost my then bf and had to evacuate my lab at school because of DARPA supercomputers), what I want more than knowing Osama Bin Laden is dead is something not even the CIA can give me - which is America back the way it was before the Bush Adminstration inflicted Americans with their own sort of Terrorism (known as the Department for Homeland Security), but unforunately unlike Windows life doesn't have a restore feature.
But what irks me the most is the statements being made by various news agencies (and even Obama himself) that this is supposed to give those of us who lost someone or were injured or killed in the aftermath of 9/11 closure because, according to the news agencies and the American government, Osama Bin Laden is seemingly solely responsible for the thousands of lives lost on both sides since 9/11.
Yes Bin Laden was a terrorist, but the American government decided how it would respond and it did so by starting a war in Iraq that we are still not out of and another new war in Afghanistan. The reaction of the American government put its citizens at risk on the battlefield and at home. It is now widely agreed that the war in Iraq was not only unneccessary because it had nothing to do with Bin Laden, but made the US government look like morons in the long run.
There was no secret cave. Bin Laden (if we are to believe the government and the media) didn't die years ago. He wasn't in Iraq. He wasn't in Afghanistan. Yet it still took the government nearly 10 years to find Bin Laden in his luxurious mansion hideout located in a suburb just outside of Islamabad. Not that dissimilar to Bush sitting comfy in his mansion in Highland Park, is it?
So the only question that remains seems to be - with American's favourite scapegoat of the last 9.5 years buried at sea and Saddam gone - who will be the next face of Terror to keep Americans towing the line?
If you're read this Simon Cowell there could be a show in it somewhere. You could call it American Target. Think about it. Kim Jong Il is so fucking nuts he'd make for some brilliant reality television. Too bad ten years later we'd probably end up finding out that Kim doesn't even have enough nuclear material to generate electricity for the light in his shark aquarium (Fuck you Hans Blix!).
As someone who losts friends to the 9/11 bombings (and almost lost my then bf and had to evacuate my lab at school because of DARPA supercomputers), what I want more than knowing Osama Bin Laden is dead is something not even the CIA can give me - which is America back the way it was before the Bush Adminstration inflicted Americans with their own sort of Terrorism (known as the Department for Homeland Security), but unforunately unlike Windows life doesn't have a restore feature.
But what irks me the most is the statements being made by various news agencies (and even Obama himself) that this is supposed to give those of us who lost someone or were injured or killed in the aftermath of 9/11 closure because, according to the news agencies and the American government, Osama Bin Laden is seemingly solely responsible for the thousands of lives lost on both sides since 9/11.
Yes Bin Laden was a terrorist, but the American government decided how it would respond and it did so by starting a war in Iraq that we are still not out of and another new war in Afghanistan. The reaction of the American government put its citizens at risk on the battlefield and at home. It is now widely agreed that the war in Iraq was not only unneccessary because it had nothing to do with Bin Laden, but made the US government look like morons in the long run.
There was no secret cave. Bin Laden (if we are to believe the government and the media) didn't die years ago. He wasn't in Iraq. He wasn't in Afghanistan. Yet it still took the government nearly 10 years to find Bin Laden in his luxurious mansion hideout located in a suburb just outside of Islamabad. Not that dissimilar to Bush sitting comfy in his mansion in Highland Park, is it?
So the only question that remains seems to be - with American's favourite scapegoat of the last 9.5 years buried at sea and Saddam gone - who will be the next face of Terror to keep Americans towing the line?
If you're read this Simon Cowell there could be a show in it somewhere. You could call it American Target. Think about it. Kim Jong Il is so fucking nuts he'd make for some brilliant reality television. Too bad ten years later we'd probably end up finding out that Kim doesn't even have enough nuclear material to generate electricity for the light in his shark aquarium (Fuck you Hans Blix!).
