All About Obama: Who’s politicizing bin Laden kill?
Leftists are swarming Twitter to chastise any conservatives who dare give any credit to President Bush for his resolve and role in leading the post-9/11 counterrorism/national security response to the worst attack on American soil.
Meanwhile, Democrat hacks are burning the midnight oil making this All About Obama.
It begins: “New DNC chief: Obama deserves credit for bin Laden killing.”
A Huffington Post reporter gloats: “Chants of ‘four more years!’ in front of WH.”
College kids in front of the White House are chanting “Yes We Can!” according to a beaming CNN reporter.
Spotted at the White House gathering: “Latinos for Obama” sign.
And Democrat Rep. Gary Ackerman doesn’t waste a second taking a swipe at President Bush:
So much for that we-are-one unity President Obama invoked earlier tonight, eh?
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Meanwhile (via Allahpundit): Bin Laden wasn’t the only arch-terrorist picked up in Abbottabad this year. #theplotthickens.
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Ahem. Via Bill Dedman, much of the intelligence gathered that led to discovering bin Laden was developed by the detainees detained under the Bush administration at facilities like the one Obama wanted to shut down. For the record:
It started with a courier’s name.
Senior White House officials said early Monday that the trail that led to Osama bin Laden began before 9/11, before the terror attacks that brought bin Laden to prominence. The trail warmed up last fall, when it discovered an elaborate compound in Pakistan.
“From the time that we first recognized bin Laden as a threat, the U.S. gathered information on people in bin Laden’s circle, including his personal couriers,” a senior official in the Obama administration said in a background briefing from the White House.
After the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, “detainees gave us information on couriers. One courier in particular had our constant attention. Detainees gave us his nom de guerre, his pseudonym, and also identified this man as one of the few couriers trusted by bin Laden.”
In 2007, the U.S. learned the man’s name.
In 2009, “we identified areas in Pakistan where the courier and his brother operated. They were very careful, reinforcing belief we were on the right track.”
In August 2010, “we found their home in Abbottabad,” in an isolated area.
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Fox News is reporting in the Bilal area of Abbotsbad, Pakistan. I’m searching Google Maps, found this location that appears to have a very high wall/fence: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=34.1814954&lon=73.2332593&z=19&l=0&m=b … if you zoom out here a little, you will see an area named Bilal town.
A part of me thinks Bush had the chance to strike and kill Osama Bin Hitler but didn’t do so on purpose, to help out his successor in the White House or to screw McCain. If this was announced in October 2008, I think that could have made a difference.
Obama simply took Bush’s work and used it to his own political advantage.
Thanks Georgie-boy. More proof he was really a leftist.
No He Can’t!!!
Since when have you seen a crowd of college age people that would celebrate a victory for the US? They are brainwashed everyday to hate our country and everything it stands for just like our fearless leader.
Do they really expect us to believe that this is spontaneous and that people carry 2008 Obama campaign signs and flags with them? Do you know any student that owns a flag?
The only people who should be gaining any political capital for this are the CIA and the Navy SEALs, who can now use Bin Laden’s head on their recruiting posters.
This could the compound, looks like a 3 story building, and there is a wall around it, and not directly next to any other buildings: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=34.1692773&lon=73.2426015&z=19&l=0&m=b … and just to the east of the area marked Bilal town on the map.
A Huffington Post reporter gloats: “Chants of ‘four more years!’ in front of WH.”
I think that was misheard.
Obama was afraid of his lefty base deserting him if he acknowledged that the key courier’s name was discovered by interrogating detainees at Guantanamo during Bush’s presidency and under his direction — IN SPITE OF SENATOR OBAMA’S VOTES AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OBAMA’S ADVICE CAMPAIGN PROMISES!
From my recent experience, their are a descent amount of closet conservatives or at least not raving lunatic libs. In 08 I had 7 people in my on-campus apartment. Of the 7, 5 did not vote for Obama.
I only saw one Obama/Biden sign from the WH rally and only USA chants on CNN and Fox.
Funny to see so many of the people who whined about “two illegal wars” suddenly become Toby Keith fans.
“Chants of 4 more years”
They want 4 more years with no President?
If Obama were to continue squatting in the White House for another 4 years, does Biden get to be President in 2015?
Posted at the Daily Mail UK — Bin Laden DEAD, gruesome picture WARNING: here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382649/Osama-bin-Laden-worlds-wanted-terrorist-killed-U-S-forces-Pakistan.html
THANK YOU PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH FOR TRYING TO PROTECT THIS NATION!!! YOUR HARD WORK AND OUR AWESOME MILITARY DID AWESOME….GOD BLESS YOU!!!
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
I hope to see every single anti-gwot outburst and speech by Candidate Obama, Dingy Harry, Bela Lugosi Pelosi, Hidin’ Biden, Unfit for Command Kerry, Turbin Durbin, and Doomer Schumer included in every GOP / conservative ad for the next 2 years to remind people who really put things in place to get this worthless piece of _____________ (fill in the blank) ….
How fast will it take Obama to politicize it by saying “ok we can now bring all the troops home from the 1 legal war and 2 illegal wars”
How fast will it take the left?
George Bush said it all right here
This announcement over Osama Bin Ladin’s death,
I believe, will in fact be the pretext to pull out troops before 2012.
Some moronics have a sign that says Obama 1, Osama 0. What a libtard.
Become Toby Keith fans. That’s a good one.
Liberals have NO shame. None at all.
I hope all those seals get decorated. The guy that pulled the trigger should get the Medal of Honor in my opinion.
And consider Petraeus as well. He won in Iraq and was probably behind this as well.
Lets make sure the tip of the spear gets recognized
I do give Obama credit for being willing to give the order to pull the trigger. At least he did do more than fire some cruise missiles at empty tents, which is all the first black president managed to do. I notice Obama kept many of the same methods that Bush used, as he should since those policies were much better and wiser than candidate Obama ever gave him credit for.
A great big thank you and heartfelt gratitude to our armed forces and intelligence personnel, who are the ones who did the heavy lifting in all of this.
This should have been the press conference:
Barry: “Despite of all my actions to the contrary, Osama Bin Laden has been killed”.
The way Obama and the Dems are gloating you would think that is was Donald Trump that was captured, killed and dumped in the ocean.
Proverbs 24:17,18
Dumping the guy’s body in the sea was a HUGE mistake. With half the world distrusting everything this administration does, now the conspiracy theories will abound, and never go away. They needed to KEEP the dang body and show IT to the world, not just some pictures that can be photoshopped. Big mistake. I don’t trust Obama and I don’t trust anything he says or does. Nothing to see here.
But happy, that would upset his people.
Exactly right.
The Usurper has done everything he could to undermine our defenses in Islam’s War against us, U.S.
Bin Laden’s death was accomplished in spite of Obama, not because of him.
Yes it would. Good. Osama got better than he deserved. Why did we feel the need to “respect” his body? He should have been put in a box with a canned ham or a dozen hot dogs and stuck in a freezer until all the world could view his corpse.
Obama: “Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan…In fact, I personally trained the CIA agent and the Navy SEALS we used in this operation. I machined the weapons’ trigger assemblies and loaded the munitions. I created the code words and tuned their communications gear. I even packaged their MREs and distilled their water just moments before these brave men left on this perilous mission. I even found the time to fuel the helicopters they used. I…”
Is it too early to place bets on how soon college Liberals start wearing OBL’s face on their defiant, latte stained tee-shirts?
Hey, VP. I have something I want to say to you and to Paratus…
I humbly apologize for telling you to shut up. I do remember telling Paratus to shut up, but I don’t actually remember telling you to. However, if I did, I am sorry. Sometimes I get frustrated with some of the comments and lash out. In the case of Paratus, he had a very negative post that angered me because he said we wouldn’t be able to stop obamacare and that obama would be re-elected. When I see things like that coming from OUR SIDE, it makes me want to go back to bed and pull the covers over my head, instead of fighting the evil that permeates this government.
Paratus…I’m sorry. You had a right to post that I and have no right to shut you up. We may not always agree on everything, but we are on the same side and I love ya!
VP…you are a true patriot and I am proud to be on your side. As for my not wanting to hear about reality sometimes…that is true. But I also don’t agree that obamacare and Obama’s re-election is necessarily reality. Do you?
Remind me, members of which political party said our military kicked in doors and terrorized women and children? Pundits who support which political party said UBL was no longer important? And which president signed an executive order closing Gitmo, the place from which intel to kill UBL was gathered, and made June 2011 an end date to operations in Afghanistan? Oh, yeah.
And don’t forget, we used “torture” to get the pertinent information we needed to get that a-hole. Shame on us!
I’m not surprised by this. Even on our local news website, the forums have people grandstanding for Obama…
Bush put the pieces in place to allow this to happen.
Obama did everything in his (meek) power to prevent it before becoming president.
And DESPITE Obama’s policies, our military got it done.
Bush deserves more credit than Obama. As I said in another thread, Obama was just minding the store.
Remember, Obama was looking to pull out that that theater asap. Results not being a factor.
I don’t for a turd’s moment believe Bush held back the slightest chance of hitting bin Laden. That ranks up there with FDR sweeping live Pearl Harbor warnings under the carpet. I will say this happy event tells me that Obama was gleefully fleering at Trump at that roast with the inner notion that “You rich clown’ I got something underweigh that’s going to blow your political ass out of the water!” This begs the question — this is one HUGE feather in Obama’s re-election cap, and it’s going to make pygmies out of all these other GOP candidates except (and I’m NOT a huge supporter) for a relative He-man gung-ho type like Trump. It might be prudent for the GOP to quietly advise Trump to brush up on etiquette or face a set in stone socialist USA.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I said it before and I’ll say it again…BUSH.DID.IT! This was not a victory for Obama. He (and Holder) fought against EVERYTHING that should have been done. And in spite of him, our military prevailed. He is taking full credit, of course. But this victory goes to George W. Bush.
Trump is toast. He became toast as soon as he gave that speech dropping the “F” bomb three or more times. That was disgusting and NOT conservative OR presidential. He will not be running for POTUS. Take that to the bank.
I have had a ‘crush’ on Navy Seals for years –in spite of Obama doing everything within his power to prevent it they took out the slimebag. Way to go gentlemen!! I always did have good taste in men….
Looks like Bush’s idea to keep our little Al Queda holding cell there in Cuba is paying dividends after all. I wonder if the Left will give any credit. Moreover, if we’d closed it per Obama’s original campaign promise we may not have found Bin Laden.
I understand that intelligence is tough and slow work, but if they knew in Aug that it was probably Opigo why did they have to wait until now to act?
Andrea Mitchell last night noted that this was on the 8th anniversary of Bush’s “controversial” “Mission Accomplished” speech, and that 8 years later the mission is accomplished. Huh? What could possibly be the connection? Partisan hack Mitchell is as dumb as a bag of wrenches.
Of course libs will politicize this. Anything that lacks class and tradition, we can expect from those dirtballs. This is a victory for the US Military. I question why it took months to connect the dots if our intelligence indicated he might be there at this mansion as of last August. Lucky he didn’t get away again.
But the election is a LONG time away. Odrama will get a bump, but things will return to normal in the polls for him in a couple of weeks. Bush had a 91% approval rating for his handling of 9-11. How did that work out for him in 2004? He won re-election..barely.
Ugh. Obambi NEVER would’ve gone after this guy on his own. He simply continued (more or less) what W was doing.
With the way the media is portraying Obama’s involvement in Bin Laden’s death you would think that Obama had rucked up him self and took Bin Laden down with a shot from a 1000 yards away using a Barret .50.
The thing of it is, it has nothing to do with Obama or Bush; instead it has everything to do with the military and the CIA assets that were doing their job. About the only credit you could give Bush would be for allowing the CIA and military to get the intel they needed to get this job done. Obama can take credit for continuing with Bush’s policies (even though he was against them during the campaign for political reasons).
On May 2nd, 2011 at 1:20 am, BK said:
“A part of me thinks Bush had the chance to strike and kill Osama Bin Hitler but didn’t do so on purpose, to help out his successor in the White House or to screw McCain. If this was announced in October 2008, I think that could have made a difference.
Obama simply took Bush’s work and used it to his own political advantage.
Thanks Georgie-boy. More proof he was really a leftist.”
………..You’re wrong Again, BK. Clinton let UBL escape when we had a chance to hit him with a drone missle. All he had to do was give the go-ahead. The military waited for him to make a decision for 2 hours. Slick Willy wanted to wait until he finished watching a golf game on TV first. UBL left the camp during that time frame.
Exactly. I doubt Obama even knew the raid was taking place until after it was on the ground and being executed.
Events happen in a president’s term that lead to giving him credit whether he had anything to do with it or not. It’s simply a matter of circumstance at times. The same also applies when not so good things happen that are blamed on the president as in J. Carter’s ONLY term (ie. downing of military aircraft and loss of life in Iran). The only activity by Osama bin Obama in this event was to give an order to pull the trigger. Presuming he gave the order. Presuming that was actually OBL’s body that was recovered from Pakistan. The CIA operative won’t be able to speak openly about it. But it does stick a political feather in Osama bin Obama’s hat.
I just want to say that from the grass-roots here in Queens and Nassau county Long Island that things are so bad economically that most fence-straddlers and barely/non-employed don’t give a hoot how salty a candidate’s tounge is (like Teddy R was) so long as they have a proven track record of bringing home the bacon. The GOP’s current line-up is lackluster as hell and we may need a bull that likes to roll in the mud to beat Obama. We can’t be nice and proper on the way to the gallows like we had with McCain again. This is really a last last chance to keep this country off a permenent socialist fix.
James Greenidge
Quuens NY
Hopefully they got his fingerprints and multiple hair and tissue samples. I think it was a mistake to bury the body within 24 hours. Anyone who would get pissed about the time limit already wanted to destroy America, so what’s the danger in waiting a couple extra days?
There will be a multitude of opinions and observations . . . I’d say close to 310 million. Yep, one for each of us.
This is a moment – a single event – it is a good thing. That is my opinion.
Right now, I am not looking beyond that. Unfortunately, there will be spin and there will be people who will use this moment to their own advantage.
OBL’s death is a good thing. Period.
Sorry James, but there are better options. Trump is a land mine. He is not the answer. Have you listened to Herman Cain? Check him out. If we ALL rally around someone like a Herman Cain, we can prevail. Trump is serving a purpose and I am grateful to him. But he must not become president.
Our Military comes through, again. I’m waiting for the leftist to stand at the airports and seaports to greet our returning Airmen,Coast Guardsmen,Marines,Sailors,and Soldiers with signs reading U S Military for 1000 more years.
Trump would be too big of an embarassment imho. We do need to find a good candidate–somebody we can be proud of, who knows how the economy works, who isn’t beholden to special interests or the Republican Party nits and knows how to surround him/herself with wise people. And Navy seals….
Everyone but Eric Holder is celebrating today. He lost the chance to hold the trial of the century.
How long until the Lame Stream Media starts wagging their pudgy little fingers and shaking their drone like heads in unison, chastising all the celebrations???
Anyone?
Yep, already on my facebook–”he is not dead, his body dumped at sea huh? Lies.” Bad mistake to dump his body at sea and not in a pig farm with cameras.
Thank God for our wonderful men and women in our military! We have the best in the whole world. I hope they got lots of dna and pictures to really prove this below slug slime rop type is DRN!
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Happy bin Laden Be Dead Day. I believe this is the first time I have ever put my flag out the night before but it did seem appropriate.
The commies have May Day on the 1st so I shall claim bin Laden Be Dead Day on the first and second. Those young people singing and cheering make me smile-and I have heard very little “four more dreary years” chants. A Huffington Post reporter? Right.
Happy bin Laden Be Dead Day
They can politicize this all they want. I don’t care if they produce a video of Obama stuffing a pork chop down his throat and taking a whiz on his corpse before kicking him overboard, I’m still not voting for him. Never have. Never will.
As long as the economy is crap, neither are a majority of Americans, either.
Hey old goat…I just said almost the identical thing on the other thread a minute ago! We are two very great minds!
I am glad this snapper head is sucking down pork Ribs in his special hell and needed to die buyt, Zippy did a deflection – look at me look at me, it was my plan, my direction blah blah blah. No matter if Osama is dead or not – our country is still swirling down the toiulet econoimy wise, education wise, job wise, dollar wise you name it.
No it doesn’t have to be, but we’re fighting the RNC and the DNC, so it’s definitely an uphill fight.
I’m sorry, I don’t find this an occasion for partisan bravado on either side, but if you say with sincerity that you do not consider George Bush’s seven year mission to find Bin Laden an abject failure, and then try to give him CREDIT for our military’s success under his successor, you are just plain nuts. Step back from the dome for a second and think about it.
Uphill fight…indeed. Our only hope is for a true conservative, economically savy patriot to step up and declare their candidacy soon so we can rally around him/her and get busy. I think Herman Cain fits the bill and he has pretty much said he is running. Now it is up to US to get his name out, rally around him, contribute to his campaign. Do some money bombs. He needs help and the media certainly isn’t going to give him any!
Congrats to the Navy SEALs!
They have definitely become the ‘go to’ guys for taking out bad guys.
Pirates holding hostages? No problem… 3 pirates, 3 shots.
Osama bin causing trouble? No problem, helo in and take him out.
I salute you!
Henceforth, Navy SEAL money is no good if I’m around.
Good point!
The Village Voice (I went there because of curiousity) is carrying on about how Clinton & Bush failed miserably and now Obama has succeeded.
When looking at the point Batman made, this is actually pretty funny stuff.
Funny because these people have no clue about how hypocritical they are.
On May 2nd, 2011 at 9:24 am, Red State Skeptic said
What this operation showed was the patience of the intelligence and military communities. The information that began the road to killing Bin Laden started years ago during the Bush admin. It is not a victory for one administration or another. This is a victory of US intelligence and military.
Well, I was wondering when one of our trolls would show up. Put down the kool aid and step away from the keyboard. We know Bush didn’t get Osama and maybe he could have. But you have to admit that Obama and this administration have done everything they could to screw things up. Rules of Engagement, miranda rights to the enemy, take them alive, trials in NYC, close Gitmo, no “torture”, etc. Obama simply does not deserve ANY credit for this. The military did it. Period.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that found the ‘celebration’ in front of the White House more than a bit tacky. I was waiting to see a beach ball bouncing over the crowd. It looked more like the night after the Superbowl.
But since when was ‘class’ what we expected from this administration?
Hey RSS, maybe you can clear this up:
I am having a bit of a problem with the time line -
That they had his body (implied killed) a week ago, but then saying they did it yesterday. Timeline goes from having him last week, to killing him in the attack yesterday. Didn’t make sense to have killed him last week, and last night call the press to get ready at 10:15p. If he was nabbed last week, why not wait until tomorrow, or last week for that matter? WTF is going on here?
Go Nixon! What a visionary.
Hey good people this is a Happy Day-bin Laden Be Dead- so remember
If you MUST feed the trolls
Feed them to the alligators
I just assumed it was bad reporting and they got it wrong again. So many rumors fly before the true facts come out. Did they get him a week ago and waited for DNA results? Or did they just get him yesterday, then quickly dump him into the sea? Hmmmm…the plot thickens and confusion reigns. Typical lack of cohesive message from this administraiton. What did you expect. Now we are left wondering what the truth is, and will we EVER know for sure???
Beachmon you are dead on– this was the military and Intelligence. They get all the praise. Stillontheroad — ditto here, what is the story?
I was watching MSNBC last night during the propoganda war. They took the White House’s line of Obama personally overseeing and planning the top secret operations to get Obama since he took office. They counted the number of meetings Obama personally oversaw and his directives and approvals on specific missions. LOL! I heard NOTHING about military intelligence and planning. Unreal.
The world is a better place with Osama out of it. It won’t end the fight against those that hate the free world, but it does remove one of their icons. As for OBambi’s melodramatic “I did this, I ordered that” speech; He is desperate and pathetic. The day belongs to the people that spent years preparing for and executing the mission, not some posturing sockpuppet.
When did the SEALS become an “anti-terrorist” entity? Sorry folks, they are an awesome group, but they are not the group of operators who have the most expertise in the anti-terror field of operations. That distinction goes to a covert group of “spectre warriors,” who have been on this since Tora Bora. Of course, we do not acknowledge their existence for security reasons…but they do indeed exist!
The only point I want to make is that we are not, nor will we ever know the real story. The very elite group of young men who pulled this off will never get the recognition they deserve. The truth of this will become apparent when we don’t see the medals ceremonies that occur after missions such as these.
God bless our troops…especially the snipers! And, may HE also bless the men of SFOD, the Tier One group, and keep them safe!
Folks, it is a foregone conclusion that Obama will take full credit for this whole thing and milk it for all it’s worth. Makes me sick, but that is the reality of it. See, VP…I can face reality once in a while!
Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY threads. Osama is dead. NEXT.
Very well said!!
Yeah, he has expertise in this field, but has to appoint commissions to make suggestions about the economy, etc.
R-i-i-i-g-h-t…!
If his handlers think this makes him look more “presidential” they would be wrong. Obama is an autopilot guy.
Howdy Doody could be sitting in his chair and the result would have been the same. Oh wait. Howdy Doody is sitting in his chair… never mind.
Does this mean Obama has to return his Nobel Peace prize?
This does nothing to change my opinion of Barack the Usurper …
We do not have a PRESIDENT in the White House …
We have a RESIDENT in the White House …
We MUST EVICT him and all his illegally appointed cohorts …
An important battle has been won but the war continues …
Semper Fi
Obama as Sun Tzu, Hannibal and Alexander. Magnificent! Sound the trumpets and cover his crown with a bay laurel, drape the purple robe upon his broad shoulders. Conqueror of worlds….
The sad part is, had the politicians simply gotten out of the way, the military probably would have gotten this guy years ago.
I love how the lefty doves are all of a sudden becoming Super Hawks. If we had gotten Osama while Bush was in office they would be screaming bloody blue murder that he was killed in cold blood and didn’t get a fair trial. But since this happened under Obama all is wonderful and he’s a towering leader. Sickening.
I understood that the SEALS did quite a bit of anti terrorist work. However, since I am not in the know I will have to take your word for the above. I am not giving up my crush on Navy SEALS but give my accolades to whomever did it–bless their hearts and their families.
Sure they are. They have relatives on board the ship, who carefully cleansed the body, clothed him in his “Sunday” finest, and buried him with his head toward Mecca…NOT!
The “with care in the Islamic traditions” message was/is a message solely for the Islamic faithful who might take exception for the way his body was really handled.
Some enterprising soul aboard ship probably stuffed some ham, or bacon into his mouth right before he was sewn up in his burial canvas, and unceremoniously dumped overboard like the morning trash!
The unclean cannot enter heaven, right Akmed?
make me puke! I just had a thing come on my facebook (inlaws!) saying “sorry it took so long to get you my birth cert–I was busy killing Osama bin Laden”. HappyScrapper you were right! Obama did kill Osama all by himself-wow-he is good! where is my barf medicine….
Way to quarrel with an argument I didn’t make.
From the Heritage Foundation this morning…Sorry for the length of this, but it is very well stated and I agree with it.
“Justice has been done. Nearly 10 years since the 9/11 attacks that left more than 3,000 Americans dead, Osama bin Laden was killed by a small team of U.S. military personnel operating under the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency. We first want to congratulate the men and women of our military and intelligence communities, past and present, who worked tirelessly across three Administrations to bring ultimate justice to the man who killed so many. The war on terror, though, is not over.
Bin Laden’s death is the most significant victory in the war on terror since the 9/11 attacks, more important than the arrest of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2006. Bin Laden’s elimination vindicates U.S. strategy in the region, started under President George W. Bush, and it will be seen as a major success for the United States, showing the world that America will remain committed to hunting down its enemies as long it takes.
But while America should take great satisfaction in this tremendous achievement, the United States must remain vigilant against a terrorist threat that is not yet vanquished. Terrorists are trying to attack us both at home and abroad; with 38 terrorist plots foiled since 9/11, these attempts will certainly continue, if not get worse.
With bin Laden’s death, which came by way of a small, covert strike force, there will be an impulse to believe that this action validates that covert operations are a cheap and simple answer to the most vexing national security problems. They are not. They are just one tool in the tool box. Among those tools, too, is the strategic and lawful interrogation of detainees, including those at Guantanamo Bay. President Obama and Congress should not use bin Laden’s death as an excuse to turn back the clock on the counterterrorism tools we need, like the PATRIOT Act.
That full range of tools must be applied to the United States’ continued efforts against terrorism in Afghanistan and around the world. Bin Laden’s death is a demoralizing blow against al-Qaeda that could be followed up by additional strikes against other al-Qaeda leaders. But though this is a significant achievement, much work remains. First and foremost, the United States must finish the job in Afghanistan and not relent in defeating the Taliban.
The operation also highlights that Pakistan is truly at the epicenter of global terrorism. The fact that the world’s most-wanted terrorist was captured in a major Pakistani city 150 kilometers from the nation’s capital should silence those Pakistanis who rejected the idea that bin Laden was hiding in their country as a Western conspiracy. It should also strengthen President Obama’s hand in pushing the Pakistanis to continue to take action against other terrorists on their soil.
The details on Pakistan’s involvement in the operation are still unclear. If Pakistani intelligence played a substantial role in locating bin Laden, it would generate a deep reservoir of American goodwill for Pakistan. If, on the other hand, it was largely a U.S. unilateral operation, the positive impact on relations would be more short-lived.
Ayman al-Zawahiri will almost certainly take over as al-Qaeda’s new chief. Zawahiri had in recent years become both the public voice and operational planner of al-Qaeda. However, since bin Laden was the founder and spiritual head of al-Qaeda, his death will demoralize the ranks of the organization and thus will likely be a major strategic setback for the movement. Zawahiri does not carry the same mythical aura as bin Laden and thus the organization will likely lose its luster among young recruits.
But threats remain. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is responsible for three terror plots here in the last 18 months, something that the organization’s core could not accomplish. And, likewise, the Taliban just last weekend launched a new offensive against U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Those are facts the U.S. government must bear in mind as the debate begins over the defense budget. There is no “peace dividend” with bin Laden’s death — our military is underfunded, and we must not shortchange our military men and women who are fighting to protect America.
Though al-Qaeda suffered a significant blow last night, it was not a fatal one. It is worth stating again: the war on terrorism is not over, and the war in Afghanistan is not won. America must remain vigilant and continue its global fight against terrorism”.
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President, The Heritage Foundation
Sorry. Ask someone who cares.
At this time in our history we must remember the words of those 2 Democrat patriots serving our country well—Harry Reid and Dick Durbin. As Harry said “this war is lost” and Dick contributed that our troops acted like Nazi’s. Yes they did bring tears to my eyes (of sorrow).
Obama got Obama? Then who got Osama? I’m confused.
I just made the same typo on facebook (damned cell phone auto-correct). The secret service has a file on me now.
Obowmao: I got your birth certificate right here, you pinheads! (grabs groinal area)
Obowmao: But enough about me, let’s hear it for our fine fighting men and women who diligently carried out every meticulous detail of my ingenius plan, and then waited patiently for my fateful order for the kill!
It is just kind of coincidental that the Pak’s approached the Karsai gov’t this past week, asking it to cut ties with the U.S.?
Never since I can remember from the early-mid 60s.
Agree.
Translation: Don’t bother me, I’m busy curled up in a fetal position sucking my thumb!
Ditto.