03-05-2011, 03:23 PM
While I agree with EE's assessment of what should be done now, it will never happen as Washington and the country itself have just been driven over the brink by OBL's successes.
And he was a great success, though a bit lucky, by getting America to fight an endless war on terror which will bring it down, one way or another - what could have prevented 9/11 and all that, if the 19 alleged highjackers had just been arrested when they attempted to get on three of the four planes, but Bush's White House was for creating a reason for going to war with the Taliban in Afghanistan because of its unwillingness to allow Caspian oil to be piped through the country.
Consequently, Tenet's CIA had 15 unarmed agents on three planes to regain control of them after they had been highjacked, and taken to LA. Unfortunately, for them and for us, they turned out to be suicide bombers, and blew up America on its subsequent disastrous course.
And when the Agency finally decided to kill him, as he had outlived his usefulness, they so overdid it to protect itself against blowback from their massive errors that he got a new life as a martyr despite the disposal of his body, just like Christ.
Much better to have just taken him out of circulation, and parked in a place like Gitmo. But the Agency somehow just manages screwups, and we shall be left with its consequences.
And he was a great success, though a bit lucky, by getting America to fight an endless war on terror which will bring it down, one way or another - what could have prevented 9/11 and all that, if the 19 alleged highjackers had just been arrested when they attempted to get on three of the four planes, but Bush's White House was for creating a reason for going to war with the Taliban in Afghanistan because of its unwillingness to allow Caspian oil to be piped through the country.
Consequently, Tenet's CIA had 15 unarmed agents on three planes to regain control of them after they had been highjacked, and taken to LA. Unfortunately, for them and for us, they turned out to be suicide bombers, and blew up America on its subsequent disastrous course.
And when the Agency finally decided to kill him, as he had outlived his usefulness, they so overdid it to protect itself against blowback from their massive errors that he got a new life as a martyr despite the disposal of his body, just like Christ.
Much better to have just taken him out of circulation, and parked in a place like Gitmo. But the Agency somehow just manages screwups, and we shall be left with its consequences.