Still Crazy After All These Years
Monday, September 10, 2007 at 2:56 am
- 8 Comments
So Osama bin Laden released a tape last week. You may have heard about it, what with all the screaming and pants wetting and fawning obsession that it was greeted with by the right-wing types. After all, bin Laden’s rambling diatribe seemed calibrated to win friends on the left, so clearly that’s proof that bin Laden is a secret Democrat. For one thing, like most Democrats, he wishes to destroy America, subjugate women, force homosexuals into the closet and institute a state religion.
The hyperventilating on the right was perplexing to those of us who long ago figured out that bin Laden was a kook, no more stable than Ted Kaczynski or Tim McVeigh, just possessing more money and followers. So bin Laden spouted some stuff from author and political activist Noam Chomsky? Bully. That doesn’t validate or invalidate Chomsky, any more than bin Laden’s support of a flat tax makes Steve Forbes look more right or wrong. Osama bin Laden, like so many other pathetic thugs before him, was able to inflict a lot of damage despite having the political acumen of your average schizophrenic.
Read moreBut the right’s wholehearted and panicky embrace of bin Laden’s words are understandable if one realizes that the most noteworthy thing about his statement was that it was given at all. After all, tomorrow it will be six years since bin Laden’s followers murdered 3,000 people on American soil, and bin Laden himself is not only still breathing, he’s still free to issue his proclamations.
Frankly, I don’t care what Osama bin Laden wants or what he says. I don’t know if he’s trying to head-fake us into staying in Iraq or if he seriously agrees with George W. Bush that it’s the central front in the war on terror. And I don’t need to know. If Osama bin Laden tells me to avoid older bridges in Minnesota, I’m not going to drive over a bunch of them just to spite him. And if he tells me that the bridges are totally safe, I’m not going to avoid them. What Osama wants is not relevant to me — because frankly, giving Osama a vote in what I do says that Osama bin Laden earned a vote with the murder of 3,000 of my fellow Americans, and I’ll be damned if I give him a vote.
No, bin Laden’s just the same nutball he’s always been, hiding in a cave somewhere in Pakistan, evidently dyeing his beard with shoe polish and putting together bizarre rants that wouldn’t fly in a late-night bull session with a bunch of stoned freshmen. He deserves many things — to be captured, to be tried, and to be executed for mass murder. But he doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously. Every second we spend debating the meaning of bin Laden’s message is a second we spend doing exactly what he wants us to do. And I’ll be damned if I give him that.
8 Comments
Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 7:32 am
In your own words Jeff <
I think Jeff, you share the insight of Bill Clinton throughout the 90′s, if I ignore him he’ll go away. This is how we got 3,000 dead people on 9/11.
Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 7:48 am
No. If we hunt him down and kill him, he’ll go away. I’m all for law enforcement and our intelligence agencies paying a lot of attention to OBL. But the rest of us don’t need to give him the time of day. His opinions are bunk. Let’s treat them as such.
Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 8:26 am
Any way you slice (or spin) it This latest communique from Bin Laden reads like it was torn directly out the the daily talking points memo from the Democrat Party.
In addition, his rant directed at the Democrat party’s failure to hand the US over on a silver platter looks to be reconstructed, word for word, from things I’ve read on loopy lefty blogs.
Perhaps Bin Laden is a faithful Moderate Left reader?
No one believes that the Democrat Party wants to blow up buildings (unless they get in the way during the protests scheduled for the Republican National Convention), so it is probably not correct to connect Bin Laden’s penchant for murder and destruction with Democrats, but…
One could correctly say that *in addition* to being a murderous sociopath, Bin Laden’s idiocy extends to the more mundane aspects of politics as espoused by Democrats.
Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 10:11 am
Yes. Liberal talking points sited verbatim by Bin Laden. Who knew you could get CNN in a cave in Pakistan?
Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 2:32 am
In your own words Jeff <<but he=”he” doesn=”doesn”>>
I think Jeff, you share the insight of Bill Clinton throughout the 90's, if I ignore him he'll go away. This is how we got 3,000 dead people on 9/11.
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Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 2:48 am
No. If we hunt him down and kill him, he'll go away. I'm all for law enforcement and our intelligence agencies paying a lot of attention to OBL. But the rest of us don't need to give him the time of day. His opinions are bunk. Let's treat them as such.
Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 3:26 am
Any way you slice (or spin) it This latest communique from Bin Laden reads like it was torn directly out the the daily talking points memo from the Democrat Party.
In addition, his rant directed at the Democrat party's failure to hand the US over on a silver platter looks to be reconstructed, word for word, from things I've read on loopy lefty blogs.
Perhaps Bin Laden is a faithful Moderate Left reader?
No one believes that the Democrat Party wants to blow up buildings (unless they get in the way during the protests scheduled for the Republican National Convention), so it is probably not correct to connect Bin Laden's penchant for murder and destruction with Democrats, but…
One could correctly say that *in addition* to being a murderous sociopath, Bin Laden's idiocy extends to the more mundane aspects of politics as espoused by Democrats.
Comment posted September 10, 2007 @ 5:11 am
Yes. Liberal talking points sited verbatim by Bin Laden. Who knew you could get CNN in a cave in Pakistan?
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