I am so serious about this. I was just sitting here minding my own business when I came across this article that just made me think.
Eight years and countless lives lost. We still can't find him in whatever cave he's hiding out in. Or what if he has shaved his beard and is working at a Jamba Juice in Dubai. I'm just saying.
And if we did find him, put him on trial, convict him and execute him, what would that accomplish? Would it stop terror attacks, or incite more terrorism and make him a martyr?
(RFE/RL) -- The mystery over Osama bin Laden's whereabouts has taken a new turn, with multiple reports claiming that the Al-Qaeda leader is not hiding in Pakistan, as widely believed, and could be in Afghanistan.
Information about the location of the man the U.S. blames for orchestrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been scarce ever since international forces launched a manhunt for him in Afghanistan in 2001. He is widely believed to have evaded efforts to capture him by crossing the border and finding safe have in the restive tribal areas of northwest Pakistan.
With a $25 million reward out for the fugitive terrorist's capture, speculation about bin Laden's whereabouts always generates international interest. But this week's announcement of a new U.S. military strategy in the region, centered on the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan and an increased focus on the insurgency in Pakistan, appears to have sparked suggestions that bin Laden is not where he is assumed to be.
What do you think? I couldn't help but be reminded of words of wisdom from my favorite San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com columnist, yoga teacher, admirer of trees:
of course, the death penalty has a special, particularly nasty tang. It is no weapon for peace. It is no advancement of the human experiment. It only serves to devolve, regress, keep us low and brutal and mean.
I would like to report that we are nearing the end of the reactionary bloodlust phase of the American experiment, that, with the Obama-inspired resurgence of positivism and the concomitant lessening of the bogus, pseudo-cowboy American fantasy, the dark energy that seems to welcome the death penalty is lessening, and it feels as if we are about to join the rest of the civilized world in rejecting this inhumane, animalistic practice.
But of course, I can't possibly say such a thing. We are nowhere near that point. Not when 65 percent of Americans still support the death penalty, bullets are sold out across the land, and millions absolutely refuse to evolve past paranoia and fear and vengeance, the ugliest of American cornerstones and the most clenched, spiritually bereft aspects of our national identity
It's 2009, do you know where your Super Villian is?!?!?