Four years ago, all I wanted for Christmas was Osama's head

[Elidor]

I thought it was only a matter of time until we got him. If you had told me then that four more years worth of Christmases would pass and Osama would still be a free man, I would not have believed it. The sheer incompetence in this one corner of the Terror War on World Peace is one of the most intolerable bungles ever by the Maladministration. Most people here have read at length on how they fucked it up so badly, so I'll just add that only in America could the gang that bungled 9-11 and let Osama go free arrange to be "re-elected" on the promise of keeping America "saferer."

All I want for Christmas this year - since I know these fools can't catch Osama - is a bunch of fat, white republican heads in the prosecutor's trophy case. Yeah. Each one of them a puffy round ornament on the tree of Justice, little decorations for a happier holiday season, a season where good actually does triumph, where bad men really ARE made to pay for their misdeeds. A fantasy, I know, but call me a dreamer. I just can't help but fall for those happy Hollywood endings.

We all need Fitzmas in the worst way this year. This is the collective resolution of YEARS of pent-up anger, fear, frustration and sorrow for all of us. May good triumph just this once. Please, I pray, make it so.

[babylonsister]

1. Amen and well said. nt

[fooj]

2. My most fervent prayer.

I believe. :patriot:

Peace.

[rzemanfl]

3. Me too. n/t

[MazeRat7]

4. Ok.. I am going out on a limb here....a very thin limb indeed...

I hear what you are saying, but you know.... I never really had that "outrage" that we needed Osama's head per se. I too was very upset (pissed actually) that this happened and yes I believe retribution is due for that aggression against this country. But from day one I had a problem with how this was being represented and questioned if the "head of one person" was enough or even appropriate.

Given all the analysis and writing since 2001, today I have a slightly different perspective. I agree we, as a collective group, need a bone or two tossed our way for enduring the deceit that characterizes this administration. I agree there are those that need to be held accountable (for both) and I can think of nothing more personally satisfying than a Merry Fitzmas or the like since we seem to be unable to "find Osama".

But I also have a dream that perhaps we will start to understand our place on this planet in relationship to the billions of other souls that share it with us. I must be a failed romantic trapped in the mind of an engineer, but in my world nothing happens in a vacuum. The Buddhists call it Karma and native Americans refer to this intangible as simply the "circle of life". Whatever the perspective I dream that we, as a nation, can begin to shed our 1950's/60's/70's cold war, protectionists, elitists, mentality and actually start to interact with other nations in a much more compassionate and selfless way.

The future success for us as a nation is not all that different from what defines success as an individual. No.. not those who has the most when they die... Its the recognition that sometimes it's not about "me" or "us", sometimes it's about someone else.

So I have gone on entirely too long... but your post got me to thinking (which is a dangerous thing as you have seen) about what wishes I would like to see realized. My dream is that we, collectively, will learn from these past 8 years and apply that knowledge to make us a stronger and more respected nation. Not because we are powerful...but because we are wise.

Thats all really... thanks for listening.

MZr7

[Elidor]

5. Osama is largely symbolic

But no less guilty for that. I don't pretend that his death ends the menace of this group the CIA spun off like a bad television series. But call me old-fashioned, if someone proudly claims to have killed 3,000 Americans, I'd like to think we'd at least bring the fellow in for an interview.

Interacting with other nations with compassion and selflessness will require a major change in our current system of government. In its present form, US "democracy" is not capable of such.

Go on as long as you like. I do.

[MazeRat7]

6. Ok.. so you made me laugh.. thats good.

Laugh point 1).. We should at least bring this fellow in for an interview.

Laugh point 2).. Go on as long as you like.. I do.


Well put.. sounds like we are on the same page.. just my dreams are a bit more long term in scope where that whole "government capability" thing comes into play.

MZr7

[BikeWriter]

7. Where is Osama and why is the idiot who can't find him...

...still in charge? This pisses me off to no end! "Wanted dead or alive". The hell you say! Was he allowed to walk out of Tora Bora through sheer incompetence, or are they still using him as a pawn in their plan for world domination?

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

8. This of all things should show conservatives that Bush is a loser

and a wimp who failed to avenge the 9/11 attacks, failed to take down the person who dared to attack the US mainland for the first time since the British in the War of 1812. I fear to imagine what historians will be saying 10 years from now, that Osama bin Laden brutally attacked US soil-- and got away with it. All because of the idiot we happened to have in the Oval Office.