Sometimes Patriotism Means Having Higher Expectations

Am I the only person who cares that Osama has been in retirement, in a mansion, in a modern city, with wives and all the American junk food he could handle this whole time? THIS IS THE STORY and by my standards the story is MISSION FAILED. The news is gawking and salivating at the current events instead of doing their job, as usual.

THINGS THAT DON'T MATTER

Who did a good job?

1. We have the best trained and most well equipped special forces on earth. A whole branch of the military full of nothing but “Jason Bournes”, “Chuck Norrises” and “Rambos”. What happens when we send about 20 of them to kill an old man in a silly white robe and a couple friends with AK-47's. This is what they do. They probably did this to warm up for some real dangerous mission later.
   Fantastic work AS USUAL!, but this is not the big story.
2. Obama: Go find Bin Laden
   CIA: OK
   Obama: Go Kill Bin Laden
   CIA: OK
   Tough decisions. Yeah good job Obama, also not the big story.

What effect will this have on Al Qaeda? Imagine what would happen to McDonald's without Ronald. Nothing. Still kills you. I don't even know what the hell Al Qaeda is. If I decided today that I hate America and start praying to Allah, I think I would be an Al Qaeda; but I'm not sure.

WHAT DOES MATTER

This was not about stopping terrorism anymore. It was about justice. The news now says that Osama was not “armed” but did “Resist”. I don't know about you but I wanted a trial and a HANGING! That’s what we do. These Navy Seals specialize in hostage situations and are specifically trained to not shoot unarmed people. As more of the story comes out it keeps changing. It is becoming clear that taking him alive was not a priority which I find very disappointing in terms of “justice”. I like to see criminals answer for their crimes.

Now the news is starting to ask how its possible that Pakistan didn’t know. Why do we expect anything but this from them? They have the worst track record on terrorism. I say we get our 12 billion in aid(bribes) back and call it even.  I have a better question. HOW IS IS POSSIBLE THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW? This is not conspiracy, its common sense. You have to believe that WE suck or WE are lairs. I'm not pushing one over the other.

Wipe the smirk off your face America, we're looking dumb. Something stinks! I'm not really expecting answers just some acknowledgment of the smell.

Better Late Than Never.

That's all the story I get Obama? I waited over an hour for you to tell me what the news reader* told me an hour ago.

First the news says “this just in: the president will be addressing the nation in 30 minutes, all we know is it will be concerning national security”. For a good 20 minutes it was left at that, with no more information. I know anyone in the country who was watching the news for that 20 minutes was anywhere from nervous to loosing their fucking mind. I was a good 15 minutes into my zombie apocalypse/alien invasion/nuclear warfare game plan before they dropped the earth shattering news. Major fail.

I don't know why it took Obama so long to write a speech just to pat everyone on the back. I was expecting more than this. Sure a few more details will slowly trickle out and I'm sure we'll be watching an Oliver Stone movie about it by the end of the year but I'm confused RIGHT NOW.
All I got from this speech is that Bin Laden has been partying in a mansion for 10 years. That makes me mad.

I don't understand how the president can talk to me about what this means in relation to 9/11 without discussing and acknowledging Bin Laden's history and relationship with the United States, and his home country of Saudi Arabia (where 15 of the 19 hijackers were from). The same people who trained him, killed him. In the context of the blatant facts and unanswered questions which my government refuses to acknowledge or discuss, this only makes everything more ridiculous to me.

Don't get me wrong.....I'm still celebrating. The only difference there might be between me and you is that I KNOW that I DON'T know what I’m celebrating.

Dead men tell no tales. I guess the president doesn’t either. Now if he could just kill the monster that lives under my bed I would really get a good night's sleep.

Hand out some medals and get back to the printing press.

U-S-A GO TEAM!

*”reporters” will now be referred to as “news readers”