Interesting reading these impressions.
Is skepticism proof enough of the truth ?
Every politician in United States knows something the world doesn't know.
You wanna know what that is ?
Really?
Are you sure?
Nah, you don't wanna know because, hell, you all do know.
But you don't.
What the hooey, might as well tell you, but first there is this: one person on this board actually thought a lot of Americans don't know how much the world hates what their America stands for these days.
My response was that even the town drunk knows this --- as if he couldn't deal with enough hate on his own already, heh heh.
Awright.
So here it is.
This is what every American politician knows and the world doesn't know.
The politicians know that every American would feel good about Zarquawi and bin Laden being captured or killed.
They also know that most Americans would know that these 2 men being gone, would not end the insurgency in Iraq, or even end terrorism in general.
They also know that the al Qaeda is no monolith, that it is a hyrdra, a diaspora spawning locally everywhere with no overall General, no great central controlling figure.
The politicans and the American people know this.
And they know one thing more: That any American politician who had proof of capturing or killing bin Laden, would not hide it, but use it to their advantage to win an election.
That last statement is so true and core to the bones of graveyard America, that no other skeptical joking around about it would be even remotely plausible in the political "psyche" of American elections.
It's just blunt enough to clearly say that no politician could even resist the chance to proclaim some symbolic success and that means capturing or killing bin Laden.
To think anyone would find greater benefit in pretending bin Laden is alive when he's really dead because this would promote continuing militarism (an issue fast becoming old with our soldiers who are going back for a third tour) is not living on the intuitive nectar of reality.