Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:40:51 PM
Just two days ago, I was praising President Obama for his courage in ordering the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden. It was an actual example of the audacity he rhetorically has hyped in his political career and it succeeded in consigning Bin Laden to the eternal torment he richly deserves for the evil he perpetrated against innocent people of many religious beliefs. Within three days of this action, however, he has reverted to a sniveling multicultural coward afraid of inflaming Islamist "sensitivities." Despite the hopes of CIA Director Leon Panetta that a photo or photos of Bin Laden's corpse would be publicly disclosed, Obama and his advisors let his fear of the "Arab Street"override the prudent wisdom of releasing definitive photographic proof of Bin Laden's death.
I firmly believe Bin Laden was killed and I have no sympathy or patience for conspiracy theorists in this country like the birthers or in any other country who don't want to face reality. Unfortunately, misguided decisions like this are what perpetuate conspiracy beliefs. This is especially true in the Middle East, where there is a high level of superstition, low levels of education and common sense, delusional fantasies about the purported power of the U.S., and equally delusional fantasies about the ability of Islamist fanatics to escape the consequences of their heinous actions.
Bin Laden headed an organization that has taken sadistic pride in posting Internet videos of its victims being beheaded such as Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl. They actively use the Internet to recruit new adherents and jihadis and seek maximum media exposure for their actions as demonstrated by their dutiful use of Al Jazeera. They do not adhere to western Judeo-Christian or secularist conceptions of the rule of law or human dignity. They are flat out killers and no sympathy should be shown toward them or their prospective followers. Displaying photos of Bin Laden's cadaver would not place any additional danger on U.S. troops, operatives, or diplomatic personnel nor will it stop potential revenge attacks against the U.S., American citizens, or U.S. interests! Releasing photos of his corpse would definitively prove that he is dead and give a chance for his followers to quit clinging to the mythology that he is still capable of exhorting them to further acts of sadism. It will also offer irrefutable proof of the fatal consequences of murdering American citizens to would be Islamists.
We showed no problem in releasing photos of Saddam Hussein's sons when they were killed, Zarqawi's battlefield death, mug shots of Saddam Hussein when he was captured and when he was executed, yet Barack Obama and his cabinet of cowards are afraid of showing a dead Osama Bin Laden. Are they still hoping to get the votes of Bin Laden's Pakistani neighbors for the 2012 presidential election? The ultimate reality is that Barack Obama and far to many Americans cannot accept, after nearly three decades worth of Islamist terrorist attacks against us, that we are in an existential war against militant Islam and that there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY we can be reconciled with or find common ground with these individuals and their affiliated organizations. We must destroy them or be destroyed by them. There is no middle ground! Every conciliatory or sympathetic gesture to their "religion" on our part is recognized by them as cowardice and weakness. That's why it's so critical we have a new President in 2013 who will repeatedly tell Americans and the international community that we must remain militarily involved in that part of the world and that there can be no reconciliation with the falsely proclaimed "religion of peace."