One Year Ago Today

dead or alive?

there's tons of chatter on the interweb tubes as to whether or not the bin laden mission was a capture that turned into a kill or a kill.  i think it's pretty clear that it was a kill mission.  shot twice, once in head, then chest, identified then dumped in the ocean like garbage.  there was never any intention of taking him alive.

rachel maddow has pakistan on the brain

she's all bent because pakistan and the isi are eyebrow deep in this bin laden shit and have been for years.  it almost sounds like this is her first day here.  i'll say it again: essentially bin laden was hiding in pervez musharraf's mother-in-law's basement all this time, and shitloads of people either knew it or had a pretty good hunch.  but remember, pakistan has nukes, so, well, just shut up.

bin laden kills attempt to kill gaddafi

bin laden's overdue exit has killed the other big story: nato (aka the united states) tried to freedom bomb gaddafi to death over the weekend.  that's also known as assassination--or possibly murder, depending on which end of the attempt you're on--and that's expressly what we said we weren't doing.  crazy. 

now what?

listening to obama, it sure sounded like that answer was nothing changes.  bin laden's death will probably amount to nothing more than a sideshow attraction while all the wars on the midway continue unabated.

on the other hand, the news networks are playing up the celebration outside the white house.  and nobody's saying what a terrible failure this was of bush, jr.'s policy and foreign policy management.