It had to happen, didn't it? As soon as I post a blog that reveals there's still a soppy, blinkered hopeful twat somewhere inside me(See my loving rant on the qualities of 'Justice League International' as they apply to me!) that still believes in the basic decency of humanity and justice for all, a black, sorry, special ops team set foot on Middle Eastern soil to murder the world's most wanted man. I'm not saying I don't believe Bin Laden was evil and deserved death, rather that a fair and impartial trial would have been nice first. Not only might it have laid to rest all the conspiracy theories of true culpability for the 9/11 attacks, and added to the enquiry over what happened that day, it could also have been America's spectacle for the whole world; a sort of darker equivalent to our Royal Wedding, except it would've lasted months and ended with a definite death sentence for one instead of possible life for two.
I don't believe that a 12 man team were incapable of taking the Bin Laden's alive, it was just easier to get it out of the way, as a sort of wish fulfilment thing for the Obama administrations failure to get out of Iraq and close Gitmo as soon as was promised. The glee on the President's coupon was so palpable, and his alluding to his role in the operation so prominent, that I fully expected him to tell the world he'd been controlling the leader of the kill team from his fucking X-Box 360. On the early evening news we were treated to footage of a plain looking albeit blood soaked, room where, we were told, Bin Laden had taken a bullet to either his right, left or maybe even both eyes. Where his son's fatal wounding occurred on his body remained unknown. I've never been more grateful that I don't have kids I'd need to explain some segment of the news to. Apparently, one of three helicopters malfunctioned just prior to landing, which was cool because it gave the team a great excuse to create a massive explosion on the way out, perhaps in tribute to Arnold Schwarzenegger's retirement from US politics earlier this year. In hindsight, Obama should have said "I was involved closely in all stages of the operation-except the pre-flight maintenance of the faulty chopper that was, eh, Hilary's job to oversee" its not as if his credibility would have been called into question.
Tearful celebration and joyful hysteria has broken out since the world found out Bin Laden has died and the US gets to call out "Mission Accomplished" yet again, just like they did in Afghanistan when they drove out the Taliban and in Iraq when they sacked Baghdad. Actually, going by previous accomplished missions, it now seems that Osama Bin Laden is set to rise from the grave with some sort of new masterplan to destroy the west, perhaps as leader of an army of zombies, although as a shambling, brain ravaged monster, they'll probably find him in less than half the time it did before, for sure. Probably about four years.
Just to clarify, there is not a single doubt in my mind that Bin Laden was responsible for unspeakable atrocities and deaths of innocents in their thousands, I'm just dispirited that he was never made to truly answer from his crimes. What can they be getting out of halfwitted, confused and idiotic British citizens such as Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, or other idiots like the one with the weird bomb in his pants, that is of any real use? One might begin to think they were not even remotely interested in interrogating the world's most notorious terrorist. I'm usually just another sad fuck who write about his favourite comics, and it occurs to me now that I'll probably be happier if I can stick to thinking about that stuff in the future. You have no idea how much I wish I was fucking dumb right now.
* At the time of writing this article, I was unaware that Mr. Obama had just recently signed his healthcare bill, and was more focused on promises made such as:- More transparency in White House goings on, as well as the closure of Gitmo and withdrawal from Iraq. I did not, do not, and will not ever, care if he was born in Hawaii or not. Also, I was a bit concerned and, yes, even offended at apparent slights to the UK such as the return of the Churchill Bust and his insistence on re-naming the multi-national oil company, BP, as British Petroleum(it's original, and long since discarded name) during lengthy press conferences during the oil spill last year. Kudos to Mr. Obama for listening to & implementing Ms. Clinton's long sought after health care reform. But Bin Laden should have been arrested, questioned, tried and sentenced to death on US soil. The End.
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