Osama Been Forgotten

I guess the skinny little guy has been out of the spotlight long enough, so now with the '06 elections coming up, it was time for him to trot out his Message of Fear to help his good buddies in the BFEE.

Al Jazeera calls it thusly: Bin Laden’s propaganda- Valuable gift to Washington.

Of course the fact that I even reference an Al Jazeera story on this blog -- let alone link to it -- is pretty much a guarantee that I'm now on the "watch list" for sure, if I hadn't landed there already for some of my rash comments in this space and elsewhere.

In the meantime, you gotta wonder, if this is the most powerful nation, blah blah blah, and we could put a man on the moon and rovers on Mars, they why in the hell can't we "smoke 'em out" of those caves in AfghanaPakistan? Rough terrain, my ass. We've fought a lot of wars on rough terrain, and that never stopped us before.

It has to be that we just don't have the will, the resolve, to hunt down and capture one man who is hiding in a cave, but we are more than happy to invade a non-combatant third country and pour all of our wealth and lives into what was a losing proposition from the get-go.

BTW, it has now been 1549 days since Baby Doc said he'd get Osama "dead or alive". It was only 1347 days from Pearl Harbor to the end of WWII.