Columnist – John Sammon
Eight heavily armed men dressed in camouflage show up at a door and knock. A servant answers the door.
“Excuse me sir, we’re working our way through college. Would you like to buy an encyclopedia?”
The servant disappears into a hallway and a bearded man appears. Bin laden.
“Would you like to buy an encyclopedia, the Saudi updated version?” the college student asks.
Bin laden nods. He reaches into his robe like he’s going for a gun.
“Get interested in this.” The college students open fire.
BLAM!
“Take that!”
BLAM!
“How about another?”
BLAM!
“How about one on the layaway plan?”
BLAM!
“Hey Marcel, watch this.”
BLAM!
“You want leaded or unleaded?”
BLAM!
“One Lump or Two?”
BLAM!
Evidently, Bin laden thought he could out-draw eight Navy Seals who already had their guns out. It would have been nice if he could have been taken alive to stand trial and demonstrate the rule of law Americans like to say they’re so fond of.
Thus opens a new phase in the soon-to-be 25th unresolved year in the war on terror, the Upscale Condo Mansion Gated Community Raid. Navy Seals disguised as college students go to exclusive residential neighborhoods and dispatch a miserable wretch.
Meanwhile, George Bush, the world’s other arch terrorist, claims credit for the operation. He feels like donning his old National Guard uniform that he wore to avoid service in Vietnam, the uniform he seldom wore because he skipped Guard meetings. Or better yet, the flight suit he paraded around in when he posted that dopey “Mission Accomplished” sign on the aircraft carrier, years before thousands of U.S. servicemen were killed.
Bush, who with his lord-high inquisitor fat-boy Dick Cheney, killed a million Iraqis to get even with Bin Laden and his handful of wretches for 9-11 even though Iraq had nothing to do with it.
Bush, who validated torture and wiretap spying on Americans and setting up an American Gulag Archipelago of secret torture camps in foreign countries and threw out the Geneva Convention to which America for decades had adhered. There would be no trials like the Nuremburg trials to demonstrate the rule of law by the civilized countries of the world.
Bush and Cheney with the apathy of the American people operated under the principal that to combat terror, you have to abandon democratic ideals and act more like the terrorists.
Such a man deserves praise.
And isn’t it fascinating in a Freudian way that the operation to get Bin laden was partly code-named Geronimo after the famous Chiracahua leader of the 1880s. Native American Indian activists were angered the government compared Bin laden to Geronimo. I get it, our government leaders, most of them paunchy white boys in their 60s, grew up watching John Wayne movies.
They can’t help compare today’s Middle Eastern terrorists with Indians. Subconscious and psychologically, it reminds them of snug safe days as five-year-olds when the world was simple, when they curled around a TV set with a cup of hot coco watching Wayne dispatch Indians and bad guys, the annihilation of our native population complimentarily called by racist America as the “Winning of the West.”
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There are similarities between the Indian Wars of the 1870s and today’s struggle against terrorists. In both cases, the government spent billions of dollars and involved millions of troops going after perceived ignorant savages who never numbered more than a few thousand. In an eerily reminiscent echo of the present, in 1875, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors were imprisoned in a prison in Ft. Augustine, Florida, erased from memory without trial or attorney, not even 100 miles from Guantanamo.
The Bin laden operation was also code-named “Neptune.” This ties in nicely because in a further bizarre twist Bin laden, who spent his life on sand dunes, was buried at sea. The fish probably felt like throwing him back.
And look at the now-famous picture of the big-shots in the Pentagon White House War Room watching the Bin laden raid results. Obama looks like a college kid who wandered into the room, which is what his Republican detractors and even some of his white subordinates probably consider him to be, a college kid on an ethnic studies scholarship temporarily occupying the White House. Hillary Clinton’s hand is to her mouth as though readying to chew her nails, as though she’s watching a favorite soap opera.
By the looks on their faces you’d think they were planning D Day.
Is this the same country that took on Nazi Germany and Japan, the most powerful military power in the history of the world terrified of a bunch of wretches who 50 years ago would have been stealing sheep?
It’s to Obama’s credit that he didn’t pose with the body for photos. You can tell a lot about the immorality of a society in the way they pose with bodies for propaganda purposes, like we did with the sons of Saddam Hussein, or even the Abu Ghraib Prison dungeon S&M pictures where the bound bodies were still alive.
As we celebrate and Obama says “We won’t forget,” how come our memory is selective?
It begs the question. Is America incapable of doing wrong? Do Americans ever study the history of events that lead up to the current situation?
Is America operating in a vacuum, or an ivory tower?
For example, Ronald Reagan, everybody’s icon and hero, backing right-wing death squads in South America that killed millions. Or giving Israel a blank check to run wild and dispossess Palestinians which fueled the current conflict and gave Bin laden the opportunity to prominence he never should have attained. Or supporting Saddam Hussein with military equipment and guarantees leading him to miscalculate he could invade Kuwait and we wouldn’t do anything about it.
Or meddling in the internal affairs for economic or natural resources gain (oil) of a dozen other countries.
Or Bush killing a million Iraqis over false weapons of mass destruction to get even with Bin laden. We love the Saudis even though the 9-11 plotters including Bin laden were Saudis.
Today, we’ve largely forgotten the Viet Cong. We have friendly relations with North Vietnam. Our tourists go there. See, we do forget in a sense. Over time.
WHY DO WE FORGET WHERE AMERICA HAS BEEN WRONG?
Has America ever been wrong?
We’re never wrong, and even if we are, it’s not wrong. That’s called being a patriot. Ask Bush and Cheney.
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