Osama Bin who?

Looks like Bin Laden has disappeared. Or as the linked article from the BBC says, his trail has "gone cold". That would be, "hmm, where did that boy get to" as opposed to "we're going to hunt him down and smoke him out" or whatever The Leader said in 2001. You all remember 2001, right? I mean it wasn't that long ago. A bunch of terrorists from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, led by this Bin Laden guy attacked us and killed thousands ofb our citizens. The degree of incompetence necessary to allow that to happen was pretty spectacular but that is another thread, or ten. But back to this Bin Laden guy. He attacked us and demanded that we remove our troops from Saudi Arabia. We said we were sure going to get him for that. We were going to teach him and the rest of those fundamentalists a lesson.

And we sure did. We overthrew the most secular dictator in the region. Let's face it, almost all the leaders in that part of the world are dictators but did we have to overthrow the one most against the fundamentalists? And we removed out troops from Saudi Arabia. Oh, yea, and we seem to have lost track of Bin Laden. At this point it hardly matters. We sent Bin Laden a message alright. We told him if he attacked us we would do what he demanded we do, figure out other things we could do to help him that he hadn't thought of (possibly he felt we weren't stupid enough to do those things so he didn't bother asking) and we wouldn't try very hard to catch him. After all, it is hard, he is hiding.

That sure is teaching him a lesson. One good thing is that we didn't negotiate with Bin Laden. We did what we wanted us to do without negotiating. Nice work there in the gov'ment!'