I stayed away from news of any sort most of the day yesterday. Which means I was late to the Osama Bin Laden Is Dead party. I did catch it late (after about 9:30p local time) and I'm still trying to process it.
Yes, I'm glad we found the bastard. And yes, I'm glad he's gone. I don't know how he's stayed alive this long with the hounds of nations hunting him. Heck, he's supposed to be hooked up to a dialysis machine, and those things hain't exactly portable so I'm not surprised they found him where they did. The kinds of medical requirements he had meant his was not living in a cave somewhere.
Part of me - the part of me that is morally opposed to what amounts to an assassination - feels queasy at what has been done in my (our our country's) name. Even if OBL was largely irrelevant (and many sources say beyond bankroll, he was),
But a rational part of me says that it is for the best. Our hunt for OBL has cost us thousands of lives, millions of refugees, and billions (trillions?) of dollars. Maybe with the man gone we can finally see past his target and get done what needs to get done.
What I'm finding amusing (in a very un-funny way) is that there are already people out there that are saying it is a hoax. Or that he's been on ice for 8+ years (?? really?? you think Dubya wouldn't have crowed this to rooftops?) and was just rolled out to distract us from the birther bozos.
What I find annoying is that to a person (and I'll be more than happy to correct this if someone can prove me wrong) not a single Republican is acknowledging that this is an Obama win. They say "great, The Big Bad is dead" but won't even give a nod to the president. We've gotten a treasure trove of additional intelligence as a result of the raid and not one Republican can utter the words "good job Mr President."
I'm feeling a bit disjointed tonight. Wish this was better written but my mind is in too many places. So, y'all will have to forgive my rambling and at times unintelligible gobbledygook. (color me amused - google spell checking recognizes "gobbledygook" as a word.)
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