bin Laden (posted first elsewhere)

[henry quirk]

If bin Laden had been killed within 30 days of the 9-11 events, then -- yes -- one might say a crippling blow had been delivered (as justice or revenge) and there might be legit cause for some celebration.

bin Laden taken out ten years after the 9-11 events is -- at best -- a minor news event, one inflated to monumental proportions by a media taken to playing propaganda machine.

Sure: bin laden's supporters are understandably miffed by the death of a friend, a leader, but any one thinking bin laden's death amounts to more than a blip in the grand scheme, or that bin Laden's death will sharpen the enemy's distaste for *'America', is just dumb.

Certainly: in the ten years since the 9-11 events: bin Laden has hand-picked successors who seamlessly stepped into the void caused by his death. Certainly: the anti-America agenda can't be any more obvious or direct(ed) than it was prior to his death.

So: insofar as I can tell, it's business as usual.

Lots of folks all over are celebrating (uselessly) at his death...let 'em...school yard antics.

Lots of folks all over will (opportunistically) take up a banner for renewed actions against 'America' (like the zeal against America was ever blunted, like anti-American plans were ever put on back burners, like the enemy -- over the past ten years -- has been cutting the West a 'break'...pffftt!).

At best: Medias should have reported that 'bin Laden was killed at 'this' time, in 'this' way, by 'these' folks, this is a comment from the White House, and now: the weather'.

This hour after hour repetition of damned little information moves the event from 'news' into 'propaganda'.

At best: after collecting photographic, videographic, and forensic evidence (to confirm the corpse was/is indeed bin Laden) the body, encased in a U.S. military body bag, should have been returned to (and left at) the place where it was 'made into a corpse'...that is: no attempts to defile or honor the corpse should have been made...the body -- after the necessary evidence was taken from it -- should have simply been dismissed (as to say to the enemy: 'this is how little we think of this person and -- by extension -- you...we simply leave him here for you, or anyone, to do with as you like...we don't care').

Finally: folks who wanna debate the 'deeper meaning' of bin Laden's death (politically or otherwise) are being hysterical, melodramatic, or just plain opportunistic.

Again: bin laden's death is -- at best -- a minor news event.




*Not only the United States of America but 'the West' of which America is the exemplar.