Why do I wonder if Tony Karon is a Navy Seal? Because he does an easy takedown of Bin Laden in Time Magazine.
The diary and the thumb drives that recorded his email traffic show, Administration officials have stressed, that bin Laden was in contact with a wide number of followers and was pushing his network “to engage in more plots, in more areas of the world and on specific dates.”
Well, yes. No question he’d have liked more attacks, and to have killed thousands more Americans. But that doesn’t change the fact that most of this has not happened, regardless of bin Laden’s urgings. It’s all very well for bin Laden to be emailing his acolytes to urge them to attack U.S. cities, bomb trains, kill leaders and generally unleash mayhem on American soil. But that starts to sound like telling them to acquire nuclear weapons and cruise missiles on which to carry them — aspirations entirely unmoored from the bounds of the plausible.
I realize the left (I’m assuming Tony is a member of left because of Time) doesn’t take seriously the actual threat that exists. They don’t believe that it can happen again, since it hasn’t happened again. Take a look at that flight to SF and the Yemeni who tried to get into the cockpit while yelling “Allah Akbar”. If you google for it, the articles that show up are blogs. It didn’t make front page news and really should have. It should have shaken us to our boots that there are still people who want us – yes, you – infidels dead.
Tony is participating in the casualness, but it’s a fun column and I like looking at bin Laden this way.
Go, relax, enjoy. Snicker a little. And watch him being taken down yet again.
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