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Where In The World Can Bin Ladin Hide? Catching Osama

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August 1, 2007

Posted by neillevine

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

         

I submit Washington can do a better job in its attempts to catch Osama Bin Laden and its efforts to overcome Al Qaida. As the purported figurehead leader of an infamous terrorist crew, capturing or incapacitating the ring leader would be a moral victory for our side and a hurtful blow to the obvious enemy. It would be nice to have something to shout hurrah about, even briefly.

Surely, since Osama is notorious and readily recognizable, it is clear the effort to catch this infamous terrorist has to be inadequate, at best. Like no one has seen him recently. As if no one is willing to report his whereabouts. If no one is paying attention, it would behoove our government to get them to wake up and see the evil. Perhaps the local tribesmen Osama depends upon do not believe he is dangerous or that he is not really being sought or that killing people is a crime.

This misinformation should be easy to dispel with a public media campaign outlining his criminal history and evil deeds, especially if it can be beamed to the neck of the desert where he is believed to be plotting his next outrage in. Everyone knows what murder and mayhem are. Perhaps instead of portraying this fight as against jihadist extremists, a position that gets sympathy in some quarters, the war on terror should be presented as a war to capture common criminals since that is what murderers and extortionists are. Certainly, sympathy and compassion for this type of devil has its limits and can be used to advantage.

Paying local tribes people to post and hand out wanted posters would be a small step in the right direction of identifying the enemy and what he stands for. So would paying for local search teams to go door to door to raise public awareness. Even broadcasting a documentary history of the criminal misdeeds of Al Qaida would probably be helpful.

Even if this is simplistic, it is a step in the right direction and considering the lack of success more steps in the right direction are needed. Since this government has not succeeded in its alleged mission, perhaps they should go back to ground zero and rethink all the steps needed to capture a notorious criminal.

Probably negotiating a new security treaty would help.  So would imposing strict curfews in Iraq, to appeal to those who object to “night life.”  Then there is the not so comforting psychological threat of assigning homosexual guards to Abu Ghraib and Guatanamo, so long as gay soldiers are going to be allowed to serve.

When you think about it there are numerous little things that our government can do that are, regrettably, not being done.

So much for leadership coming from Washington.

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