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Heaven On Earth
Osama bin Laden Dead
May he get a 72-year-old virgin forever.
Check out the reactions in the Jihadi world. MEMRI now has a substantial collection of such responses.
Excellent articles from City Journal (HT: Andrew Melnick):
SOL STERN
Solidarity, Then and Now | What Obama didn’t say
ANDREW KLAVAN
Justice for All | And for Osama bin Laden, finally
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
The Late Bin Laden | Thoughts on presidential leadership and the media
GUY SORMAN
Pakistan’s Dangerous Game | Bin Laden is gone, but the nation’s military remains a destabilizing force.
THEODORE DALRYMPLE
The Guzmán Parallel | Bin Laden’s downfall resembled that of the Shining Path’s fanatical leader.
Here’s a comment I found from an active US military blogger in Iraq that makes good sense to me.
The whole article is at:
http://tcoverride.blogspot.com/2011/05/osamathanatopsis-meditation-on-death-of.html
The comments are correct. There are, in fact, a couple of dangers in this kill.
One is an almost certain attempt by Obama to present this as a victory and reduce the commitment to war against terrorists in order to appease “more moderate” islamists like the MB, Hamas and Hezballah.
Reinforcing this is the euphoria I detect in Western media and elites to use the uprisings as evidence that AQ was sidelined by the “democratic” events in the Arab world and that it was those and not AQ which are the salient factor.
These are delusions as future developments will prove. We already got very clear signals from Egypt and PA as to the direction.
The best two articles on the kill I saw are Spengler’s in Asia Times and Tisdall’s in the Guardian. Read jointly, they should cause serious concern.
I’ll shortly email RL the Gleanings on the kill.
Before we Americans get carried away seeing ourselves as the defender of the world’s weak and defenseless against terrorism it would be useful to read this powerful essay by Carolyn Glick. She clearly understands the limits of such altruism. As on the playground or in the ghetto – few societies will ever stick their own necks out or risk their own comfort for the weak and defenseless – unless maybe there’s something in it for them. It would be good for Americans to remember that we did precious little for the Jews when it could have helped most and what we did finally do later was done against much political opposition. Rwanda is an even more recent example.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=218892
Anybody with half a brain does not believe all that altruism crap. Americans as individuals are the most self-centered people in the world as a matter of ideology, and their government is altruistic? Let’s be serious.
The problem with the US is that it’s not used to be not dominant and I would not want to be its ally in these circumstances. It wasn’t a very good ally when it was dominant, when it’s weak it’s a disaster.
Ray,
From your Glick link
But legal obligations couldn’t compete with Britain’s belief that its national interests lay with the Arabs.
and so it came to pass that Britain is succumbing to the Arab culture at ever increasing speed. Today London is witness to arrogant Islam inveighing against its sons with verbal and physical intimidation.
Osama Bin Laden Dead: Victory For America
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