Bin Laden Still Dead

There is something not quite right about the recent 'Gotcha' with the killing of millionaire recluse Osama bin Laden. See, when Raoul Moat was shot, I didn't need to see the bodies, with holes, to be convinced as there was enough circumstantial evidence. Now I know the order of importance is somewhat different here, but the whole thing was videoed so surely there is footage to prove it was the nutter himself, without having to show us the gory bits. All this, 'yep we got him, definitely him, but we won't show you any kind of substantive evidence and we disposed of the body at sea. Really quickly', just doesn't wash. This we are to take on trust, but from people who have also said he used his wife as a human shield, quickly followed by no he didn't. So which bits are made up and which bits true?

I also liked the dithering bit. Obama has a reputation for not being keen on making definitive decisions, you know, ones that he could be held responsible for. Kind of makes you wonder if he really thought through being President, what with the way the job spec. for that role reads. 16 hours I hear; he spent 16 hours deliberating on what to do once he knew where Osama was. See how you do. The question was, 'we have found the location of the most wanted man in the world, the man who committed the worst atrocity in US history. Should we go get him?' You can see the difficulty can't you?

And so it comes back to trust. The Left managed to sow the line that Bush was as thick cold custard and comedians repeat it endlessly, but we don't hear that about Obama, despite all the evidence. Now this might be because he isn't actually dumb. or because it is only the Left who think slurs are the best way to conduct intelligent politics. Obama doesn't strike me as being all that reliable, which is why I see him as no more than a US version of Tony Blair (it doesn't get worse than that). If I could borrow a Left tactic for a moment then; those still pictures showing an enrapt Obama might just be the military showing him the Chris Morris movie 'Four Lions'.

I think bin Laden is dead, but something tells me that the recent 'event' isn't all that we are being sold. He may not have been killed there or there maybe something they need to hide regarding the way he was killed. I don't know, but the more you think about it the more questions arise. If the Pakistani's didn't know anything about the raid, how come there was no armed opposition from their military when four very noisy helicopters drop from the sky and then there is considerable mayhem and shooting? Particularly when a military facility was so close at hand?

Bin Laden Dead

So the news is in that Osama bin Laden has been presented with the opportunity to discuss murder with his Creator. I see no reason to cheer at the death of any human being, but it is highly likely that the death of this man will mean others will live. It was not an opposing ideology he represented but an emptiness, a vacuum of thought, just I suspect as with any other simple murderer. Osama was we should remember, a bored millionaire playboy for whom killing became his entertainment. I don't think he was mad and killed from the clouded thoughts of an unclear mind, I think he was absolutely clear on what he was doing. Not least because he was so keen that someone else did the dangerous stuff.

The organisation he built up though could not succeed just because of the support of a bunch of easily led simpletons and idiots, but because those he opposed were weak. Political Correctness above all showed that the pathetic weakness of the Left was taking the upper hand in the West and that we couldn't oppose a blancmange. Ideologically the West was becoming corrupt and debased. The lack of care for family, the removal of personal discipline and standards, of care for others and of humility was undermining our own strengths. Strengths that came from a Christian values (and I don't mean you needed to be religious). Overwhelmingly however, the weakness was manifested in the likes of Blair who constantly showed that he would surrender to terrorism on certain conditions. One was that he personally could become enriched and the other was fear, which is why he gave in to the IRA. Neville Chamberlain showed Hitler that he didn't need to fear his 'enemies' and Blair continued that weak tradition of behalf of Britain.

In the US, with an election looming, Obama inserts into to announcements about the killing that he ordered it, so ultimately all praise is due to him. This very Blair-like behaviour shows how deeply mired the US is in a Presidential cult, where Obama sees himself as more important than any other aspect of his country or it's government. They need to rid themselves of parasites as we did.

But regarding this killing of Al Qaeda's murderer-in-chief, we must wait to see what comes next from the deeply conflicted heartlands of Pakistan.