Please, Mr. Boogeyman, come out and play
An odd little headline on the CBC website this evening. One of the top generals in the WOT (what?) believes that victory won’t be possible until the boogeyman is captured. Let’s start this again. The War On Terror will be won only if Bin Laden is finally captured. Glad to see that the leaders still have their eye on the goal, so to speak. I thought this whole crazy roadshow was about petroleum and who controlled the rights. Silly me; I wish I had their clarity of vision.
It’s been eight long years since the hunt began, if we can believe the back story. In that time, there’s been some collateral damage, and a few caves have been raided. Other than that, business as usual. The wells are pumping that old “black gold, Texas tea” as my buddy Jed used to refer to it. Some companies that deal with things like private security and logistics have managed to tap into the barrels of cash flowing straight out of the American treasury. And somewhere along the way, the government of Canada (a sovereign nation, in many ways) have hitched their military and their mint overflow to the same sad dog and pony show.
Hands up, those who still believe that Bin Laden was anything more than a voice crying in the wilderness. A John the Baptist for the other team. Generally, children outgrow tales of the monster under the bed. Not generals, though. To find that Bush’s banners proclaiming victory were less than exact might come as a surprise due south of here. In any other direction, not so much.
