The partisan squabbling over the killing of Osama bin Laden is a typical election-year distraction, effectively squelching discussion of more important matters one year after the execution of the al-Qaeda chief executive.
Aided by cable-TV talking heads, Americans are spending too much time speculating over whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have given the order to get bin Laden, and also issuing paeans to President Obama’s “courage.” (We have a strange notion of courage. Did Obama risk his own life? Of course not. He was safe in the White House Situation Room. Perhaps he “risked” his political career, but even that isn’t certain. A failed operation might have won him sympathy for a good try. On the other hand, the men under his command were ordered to risk their lives and the lives of others.)
While the commentators are engaged in trivialities, big foreign-policy questions are ignored.
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I still remember when bin Laden was our friend....thanks to Brzezinski's brainwashing Jimmy Carter into giving US taxpayer's $$$ to him:
ReplyDeleteYouTube - Zbigniew Brzezinski to Jihadists: Your cause is right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTv2nFjMBk