The Man Of No Concern

As many of you are aware, Osama Bin Laden released his first video in three years the other day, and reaction to it has been rather interesting.

David Brooks of the New York Times had this to say about it on the News Hour With Jim Lehrer…

“I mean on one hand he’s a malevolent guy who killed three thousand Americans, but you read this thing and it’s like he’s been sitting around reading lefty blogs and one of these childish people posting rants at the bottom of the page, you know, Noam Chomsky and all this stuff.”

Of course, it gets better.

President Bush, the man who swore to bring Bin Laden to justice in 2001, said…

“I truly am not that concerned about him.”

How about Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney?

“It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”

How about Fred Thompson?

“Bin Laden is more symbolism than anything else”.

So, in short, the world’s most wanted man, the evildoer of all evildoers, the mastermind of 9/11, is nothing to be concerned about, not worth moving heaven and earth to catch, and simply a symbolic figure.

Bizarrely, the last time I checked, the justification for invading Afghanistan and overthrowing the Taliban was because they were providing a safe haven for this now largely symbolic figure that is nothing to be concerned about. Of course, they failed to catch him, and have also failed to gather any decent intelligence as to his whereabouts through those that they were able to capture and whisk away to dark places where the methods of ‘questioning’ employed would help usher in a whole new era of ‘acceptable torture’ – not to mention one in which international law and the UN Charter have been routinely pissed all over like a nightclub urinal.

So there you have it. There’s no longer any need to concern yourself with Osama Bin Laden. Nameless, faceless terrorism – absolutely shit your pants over that. But Bin Laden? No worries.

Between you and me, I’d be more concerned about ‘lefty bloggers’. After all, they absolutely adore terrorists.