Time for an Osama Bin Laden career appraisal. His war against the crusading infidels has been going on for almost a decade (starting with the arbitrary date of, oh, I dunno, let’s say September 11, 2001). Since then there have been many deaths and destructions, a myriad of secret operations that we will never truly know about, an incalculable amount of money and resources spent and wasted. And the result: he’s still in hiding, probably in a cave or the equivalent (let’s face it, there’s no bling), the US is still in his precious lands, and in fact now “owns” two Muslim countries in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Other terrorists, rebel leaders, and associated nutbars who think they look hot in military uniforms, were able to at least achieve some gains or, failing that, enrich themselves. Look at Yasser Arafat. The man fought the Israelis and then became leader of the Palestinian Authority. He signed the Camp David accord and shook hands with world leaders and was at least partly responsible for increasing the level of sympathy for his people around the world.
Even Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is smart enough to take the oil money and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-Il knows enough about megalomania to surround himself with luxury while his people starve. And then there’s Osama … poor, pathetic Osama, who can’t even afford to make a high-quality death threat tape. That 4-year-old girl on the Windows commercials makes better videos than him.
This is probably our last post on Bin Laden. He's boring.
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