The Value of Planning Ahead
I'm curious as to why Osama didn't take the Assange route and tuck away some incriminating documents concerning his job history at the CIA somewhere, ordering someone to release them should he ever be caught or killed.
Even if we did capture him and put him on trial, its not like we'd do any but the most superficial of trials, sort of like the one Saddam got that was cut off before they could get to his complicity and work for the US government.
Even if we did capture him and put him on trial, its not like we'd do any but the most superficial of trials, sort of like the one Saddam got that was cut off before they could get to his complicity and work for the US government.
Osama
The Taliban offered to hand Bin Laden over to a neutral third party nation for a criminal trial if we stopped bombing and provided evidence he did it.
So we went ahead and declared war on a nation and a peoples that had nothing to do with 9/11, mostly ignoring Al'Qaeda's Saudi and Pakistani relations.
Meanwhile, we let him escape at Tora Bora because of an unwillingness to commit more troops to the fight, losing bearing on him for 10 years. And yet we continued to fight a war there predicated on capturing him and ending support for his terrorist network while he and his group slipped out of Afghanistan altogether.
In that decade,
Tens of thousands more refugees have been created
And those are just the more prevalent problems, not to mention the fact that "Al'Qaeda in Iraq" was one of the bullshit reasons we invaded that country.
We finally kill him (in Pakistan, shock of shocks) after most of you have seemingly forgotten about this fucking boogeyman and you all cheer!
I hope that price which we continue to pay, which your children will continue to pay was worth it.
Enjoy your corpse.
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