Obama killed Osama

The pattern juggler lifts his hand,

The orchestra begin.
As slowly turn the grinding wheel,
In the court of the Crimson King ..

Hey there.

The word on the street since the small hours of this morning is that Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US special forces in Pakistan, after a 10 year long run post 9/11. I won't go down the complete conspiracy theory route on this (yes, they already exist, and my goodness is there some bullshit on the internet) but some of the stuff surrounding it moves from "Well, thats interesting" all the way to a long, frowny "Hmmmmm".

The major flaw seems to be in the US's admittedly understandable but hugely, hugely ill-conceived rejoicings. It's like killing the queen bee in a bee hive and then hanging round to do a victory dance. I'm addressing YOU, America, seeing as a good 75% of this site's hits come from the States - is it not mind numbingly obvious that stoking the fire with your flags and rowdy patriotism will not do any of us favours for the future?

It struck me as odd that Obama let it come to this. His use of the phrase "brought to justice" was as much of a kick in the tits as George Bush's infamous 'Mission Accomplished' banner. If the price of justice for one man is billions upon billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, both military and civilian, you'll forgive me if I don't alter my definition of 'justice' just yet.

Which leads me to this: Justice will never be truly served because the perpetrators themselves are dead. Coordinated by Bin Laden, overseen by Bin Laden, brainchild of Bin Laden - however you want to define it - the removal of one man from the top of an ideological tour de force like Al-Qaeda will not address the root problems: poverty, the desecration of other faiths etc. Rather it will only serve as a catalyst for the next more determined generation of radical Islamic fuckheads who step up to fill his shoes.

Despite all this 'God Bless the USA because we can afford to bomb our way around for a decade in search of one man' malarky, one thing that does strike me as odd is that we didn't, and most likely never will, see any pictures of Osama after he got all killed. What are the reasons for his corpse to not be paraded around much in the way ol' Saddam was immediately following his capture?

My favourite quote of the day - "US intelligence analysts believed the compound was "the sort of place that you might try to hide". THAT is the quality of intelligence we're working with? Taking random potshots at things that look hideworthy? The discovery of a half kilometre deep tunnel network with supplies for 5 years might have been a victory of some real calibre, but "the sort of place that you might try to hide" is the kind of thing you'd say about a cupboard underneath a staircase. Is this what 10 years has been spent doing?

"Look Sarge! That pile of rocks lying on the floor!"

"Well spotted Private! That looks like the sort of place that someone might try to hide!"

Bin Laden has apparently been buried at sea in the most conveniently unheard of Islamic tradition that the US army could find between killing him and planning their next big win in the propaganda war.

And just while we're discussing convenience, remember last week America, when it was being disputed as to whether Obama was an American citizen and thus eligible for presidency? Let's see how quickly the haters revert back to that notion seeing that the death of Bin Laden fell under Obama's term in office. It should keep you occupied to the next anniversary of 9/11 at least.

Remember: Believe everything your government says, America, or the terrorists win.