Working on his tan: Here’s a new theory on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden: He’s on the beach somewhere relaxing, or at Disneyland – or wherever you go to get some downtime after you’ve won a war.
If bin Laden’s goal was to destroy American democracy, it certainly does appear that he has been successful – and he couldn’t have done it without his accomplice, President George W. Bush.
Bin Laden’s attack on the United States in 2001 enabled the president to use the fear of terror to manipulate the public will. Instead of reassuring Americans they “have nothing to fear but fear itself,” Bush’s message is, “Be scared – be very, very scared.” He also used fear as an excuse for shredding the Constitution by flagrantly violating United States law.
When the attacked us on 9/11, Bush says, bin Laden and al Qaeda changed the world so drastically that documents like the Geneva Accords and, evidentally, the U.S. Constitution were “rendered quaint.”
President Bush says that because we should fear bin Laden more than we love our freedom, he can ignore laws like FISA as well as constitutional edicts preventing the government from spying on its citizens.
And his stooges, the corrupt Republicans who run Congress, are unwilling to stop him.
Game, set, match. We are toast.
The picture of bin Laden savoring his victory, sunning himself on the beach, hit me when I read this from Bob Geiger:
When speaking in Louisville, Kentucky [last week], Bush gave this answer to a seven-year-old who asked how people can help win the war on terror:
“What I don’t like is when somebody said, he lied. Or, they’re in there for oil. Or they’re doing it because of Israel. That’s the kind of debate that basically says the mission and the sacrifice were based on false premise.”
Far from being blasphemous, the notion of a “mission and sacrifice based on false premise” seems to hit the nail squarely on the head. I also guess I have my own view of what brings comfort to our adversaries and the president can’t have it both ways.
By attempting to smash dissent in this way, Bush must be bringing a lot of comfort to the likes of bin Laden, who would undoubtedly like nothing better than to see the greatness of America so diminished. If the terrorists truly do “hate our way of life,” they must be getting a lot of joy out of seeing our president and the GOP doing their best to destroy it.
Lie to attack a country that didn’t harm us? No problem. Crap on our Veterans and do nothing to provide proper equipment for troops placed in harm’s way by these lies? Standard fare. Out a covert CIA agent as political retribution, spy on the American people without a warrant and trash our Constitutional rights? Just another day at the office.
Because to Team Bush, none of those things are wrong. Rather, the people who object to those acts and raise their voices in protest are wrong – and terrorist-lovers on top of it.
Going to war was never the proper response to 9-11. After seeing Steven Spielberg’s brilliant movie, Munich, that becomes even more clear. There’s a terrific line near the end where Eric Bana asks the Mossad chief, “There will never be any peace at the end of this, will there?” That line could have been written for Bush’s “War on Terror”.
We are never, ever going to kill our way to peace, because we just keep making new enemies along the way…
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