Flashback: When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt?

[Drunken Irishman]

When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt?

In a talk at the Atlantic Council this week, CIA director-general Michael Hayden said Osama bin Laden is alive. I'll take his word for it. But bin Laden's strange disappearance makes one wonder what exactly happened to him. The last relatively reliable bin Laden sighting was in late 2001. A video that he apparently appeared in last year shows him with a dyed beard. More than a few Pakistani intelligence operatives who knew bin Laden scoff at the idea he would ever dye his beard. They think the tape was manipulated from old footage, and that bin Laden is in fact dead. But then again, they would have an interest in making Americans believe bin Laden is dead, since it would relieve U.S. pressure to find him by any means necessary, including going into Pakistani territory.

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But what if bin Laden really is dead, buried under a hundred tons of rock at Tora Bora, or so weakened that he might as well be dead? Indefinitely crashing around Afghanistan's and Pakistan's wild, mountainous tribal region on a ghost hunt cannot serve our interests. The longer we leave troops in Afghanistan, the worse the civil war there will become. One day Obama will need to give up the hunt — declare bin Laden either dead or irrelevant. He has more important enemies to deal with, from Iran to Russia.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1859354,00.html#ixzz1LK7GSDac

[orwell]

1. But wait...

...I've been told by countless Con pols and talking heads that we have King George to thank for the bin Laden operation. President Obama just reaped the benefit of all the Bushie's tremendous counter-terrorism efforts. Because we all know that Republicons are much better at national security than the Democrats.

You mean what they have been saying is wrong?

:sarcasm: