Fox “news” has a story saying that bin Laden’s compound in Pakistani could become a shrine to him. Fox “news” seems to think that Pakistan should destroy the building. A city official seems to say it will be a great tourist place and make some money for the area.
I can see the city point of view. I am sure they do not have much money and it would be a welcome source of income.
We got lots of money…. Hell we can print money… We should have a front group buy the building and then we could use it some way … plant microphones all over the place to pick up anything said and feed it back to the NSA and the CIA.
We could have CIA people working as guides and making contacts. Hell we can charge to see the place and give some of it to the local poor people and send the rest back to the CIA to put in their budget.
We could just pay the city so much money that they would be happy to tear it down for us.
On the other hand even a vacant lot can become a shrine.
We should just forget bid Laden. We killed him. We tracked him down and we shot him dead. He is in hell. We should not keep talking about him and worrying about his name.
We can just make it clear if you follow in his foot steps then you can expect a bullet in the head or a rocket on top of you.
I know we got to do what we are doing right now for a few days.. But it is close to time to move on and end this…
Fox “news” was attacking President Obama today when he was in New York… They have already started… They were carrying on today about how could President Obama let CIA officials face charges for torture because the torture got some information that helped us find bin Laden? The President of the United States does not decide on who the Justice Department charges with crimes and I was not even aware that any were facing charges…Seems like I heard back in 2009 or something that the CIA people that did the waterboarding were NOT going to face charges.
But I am not current and up to date on all of it… But Fox “news” has a woman on talking for a LONG time on the subject and the Fox “news” moderator was sort of clicking her tongue and going on about … wow how can President Obama do something like that?
Yes, I have Fox News at least today. I had basic cable installed yesterday and I got some extra channels and Fox is one of them. I think when they install TV they leave on some extra channels for x number of hours or days so that you can see what they are like and so you will upgrade or subscribe. So not sure how much longer I will have Fox “news” but I can get along just fine without it.
I think you're right about the bin Laden compound - well you wrote several things but most were tongue in cheek. It should be just dismantled and left as vacant ground or make it into a sandal factory or something industrial. Don't know how you completely keep it from being a mecca for the crazies but if were unattractive and inaccessible that might help.
Don't belabor the photos - I agree with not releasing them althought it's easy to photoshop a gruesome image and claim it's the real thing but that differs from the govt doing the releasing. Just quit talking about him - best approach.
Maybe put Jim Howard in charge of our foreign policy.
Posted by: Dick | Thursday, May 05, 2011 at 18:51