Is it time for a surge against Osama?
Ah yes, Osama. Based on the videos reported, I’m still skeptical that he’s in any kind of shape to command diddly squat, but Terror Co-Captain Zawahiri is clearly back at the wheel, aiming at a a city or twelve in the Western World.
How’d he get his wings back? A combination of a Musharraf safe zone and the tactical decision to keep the training camps smaller and/or harder to spot has helped immeasurably. A communications system that pairs short-distance couriers with temporary or mobile internet hookups probably has rebuilt a more difficult-to-track communications system as well.
Other sources indicate intel failures have continued since the active military hunt was abandoned in favor of going after Saddam’s invisible WMDs, torturing Iraqis and turning a blind eye to the Shia death squads and the Sunni insurgents that responded to create a civil war.
“Gee, we thought they were hiding and making videos instead of strategic planning,” is a sorry excuse for US personnel who are tasked with the job of out-thinking a far weaker enemy. Or have we contracted out the out-thinking to Halliburton or Dubai?
No? The Osama Revival is funded by a Republican campaign funder? Who was bidding on Homeland Security contracts? I thought the Fund Osama Charity was the job of wealthy Saudi businessmen connected to the Saudi government that Bush holds hands with.
One certainty: Bush’s gut instincts are an asset to no-one except, perhaps, to a tummy with a penchant for baloney.
Another: Cheney’s viciousness and dreams of empire are worthless if he only directs them at Democrats, ducks and hunting buddies.
We were attacked by a criminal operation led by a pair of ideologues in September 2001. Five and a half years later, we’re revving up for a second war on the Taliban revival, more WMDs exist in the Axis of Evil, more could be under development, and the ideologues who caused the deaths of 3,000 Americans are back in the saddle again. Yippie-yi-ki-yi-yo.
But we got the bad guy who never attacked us. And the Republican Congressional minority keeps singing the refrain: “All we are say-y-ying, is give Bush a chance.”
Instead of giving it to, say, our troops. Or to our national security.
Hey, here’s an even better idea, from Bush’s favorite media lappoodle: let’s get genocidal! Yippie-yi-ki-oy-vey.
