"Spare me the "he took his eye off the ball" rhetoric ..."

And therein lies the problem. The radical Bush zealots don't care to face the root cause of an issue, just divert their attention to something oozing machismo or someone else's morality.

But I digress...

You know those 140-some-odd-thousand troops getting shot at in Iraq? Well, here's a thought - what if we had them all a couple countrys to the East looking for ol' binny? I'll bet we'd even have an extra 1100 of them to help out if we hadn't messed around playing cowboy.

However, other than a nice sense of schadenfreude, I don't think killing bin Laden is going to make much of a difference. Capturing him vs killing him would be preferential, since being killed by the US elevates him to martyrdom. But either way, the Bush-folly has recruited more than enough to take his place regardless.

But from where I stand (literally) there isn't much of anything we can do until we clean up the mess we're currently in. Which takes us back to "why did we create the mess we're currently in before capturing bin Laden, and who's responsible?"


This is where Krusty starts whining "Blame America first, yadda yadda yadda..."