Is it not amazing to watch a recent Nobel Peace Prize winner jubilate over the killing of a world renown terrorist? We do not have to repeat what happened on May 1, everybody knows it. Master terrorist Osama Bin Laden was assassinated in a midnight raid in Pakistan by a special SEAL team. We agree with the many who have congratulated the President for making the decision to proceed with the attack, the world is a better place after Bin Laden’s demise, no doubt about it.
What strikes us as odd here at Common Sense University is the extended victory lap the President is taking with his high profile speeches, visits to Ground Zero in New York and to the Special Forces units at Fort Campbell contrasted with his rhetoric. He decided not to show any photos of the dead Bin Laden and he ordered the body to be given a traditional Muslim burial on an aircraft carrier and the disposition of the body.
The President stated that it was not proper to show the “trophy” as he called it nor “to spike the football“. These terms are easily understood by Americans. But how does one accept that considering the fact that Obama did nothing else but spike the football for nearly a week? The answer is very simple: He is campaigning for re-election! By the end of that week, domestic news about the unemployment rate as of the end of April and the job creation were bad for him, so he did what he does best: He ignored that!
What is the most disgusting element in all this is as always, the complying liberal media who could not tell us often enough how brave President Obama had been in ordering the strike on this “slum-villa” in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It was so extremely courageous because things could have gone wrong with the mission by the SEAL team. He took such a huge risk giving the ok for this event, it was just awesome.
It is sad that America has to listen to or read this nonsense. If risk analysis were made on anything that goes on in the country, we wonder how many sports events would be cancelled (after all, the home team could lose), how many people would simply not go to work on rainy or windy days because they might get into an accident or be hit by a falling tree? This is so silly, it makes no sense at all. If a person has this sort of decision-making philosophy, he or she should not be in a position to having to make such decisions.
In the meantime, we really do not know at this time how this operation to kill Osama Bin Laden was executed in terms of time line. When the news broke on the evening of May 1 that something big had happened and that the President would address the nation about it, the news were multitudinous in that it was first reported that Bin Laden had been killed a week earlier and that the wait until the official announcement was due to extensive DNA verification testing. Then the number of people killed varied, then the matter of Bin Laden having had a weapon in his hand when confronted by the Special Forces team members and so on. There have been so many statements since May 1, we wonder if we ever get a real report on what went down and if so, if we can believe it. For now, we consider this best to be summarized as: Obama killed Osama and we (the people) got 72 versions of how it happened. We do not know if Bin Laden got his 72 virgins after his life was ended, we are satisfied with him being dead.