Yes, finally bin Laden was captured and killed. I can believe that part of the story….

The rest however, is something else.

First, a couple statements:

Up to now, almost or all, captures of bonafide Al Qaeda elements were the result of Pakistani intelligence “deliveries” or arrests. The rest of the miscreants were wanna be’s or a result of circumstance.

Fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere else “so we don’t fight them here” is misleading because, the only reason those circumstantial miscreants are able to fight U.S. military assets is because of the fact WE are there!

Most of those foreign fighters could barely cross the Suez or Black Sea or Red Sea, forget the Atlantic. They are merely serfs with not much else to do.

Those conflicts did nothing to bring bonafide terrorist suspects to justice. The U.S. got anything of worth only when Pakistani ISI felt like giving it up.

Another thing. Those that were given up of alleged Al Qaeda members were typically not of the Pakistani type. Usually those that drifted in from surrounding territories Uzbek or wherever, are the ones that were arrested and handed over to the U.S.

The rest was incompetence. The behemoth surveillance system erected by Bush and in de facto supported by Obama, has delivered little if any value to fight terrorism. If you consider all of the contemporaneous laws or Acts that have been passed over that time it is a system well suited to govern and suppress a populace.

In reality, 9-11 was a one time shot. Never to be repeated. Sure, there have been copy cats and other idiots that woke up one day since and decided to call themselves Al Qaeda fly on a plane and attempt to light their shoes or underwear on fire or whatever else. Total incompetence.

The U.S. could have done nothing else but focus on improving just a percentage point on the current intelligence agencies capacities and that would have potentially yielded more value then what exists today in terms of a so called war on terror.

The real deal was that Pakistani ISI decided to turn over bin Laden. The U.S. orchestrated with the assistance of the ISI the kill or capture mission. Hours before the mission ISI and military elements instructed the surrounding neighbors of the compound to stay indoors, turn off lights or manufactured a black-out of the area.

Meanwhile, the Pakistani military secured the area and was standing by to support the Universal Soldiers of the fantastic Six. As they accidentally crash landed one chopper, the remaining members stormed the compound killed a couple bin Laden family members and hopped in the remaining good chopper. While the other Seal Team 6 members were whisked away, since not enough chopper room to fly away on, to arrange alternative transportation by the Pakistani military and rejoin their cohort back at HQ.

U.S. gets sole credit because for Pakistan to officially take credit would topple the government. The U.S. gets to boast about covertly taking down Geronimo while the Pakistani officials can play dumb, request a reduction in U.S. troop presence as a result, and continue receiving their kickbacks from the U.S.

The U.S. gets an injection of very much needed pseudo-confidence straight into its prefontal cortex to induce a retrograde amnesiatic state for the last 10 years.

I’m not buying any version of the “official” story. The Bush supporters praise the monstrosity that the government constructed by way of DHS, CIA, FBI, NSA, ATF, DEA, DIA, NRO, NIMA, AFI, AI, NI, MCIA …Patriot Act, BSA and other civil liberty stealing statutes. The Obama administration will get some praise for its continuity of Bush policies while stealing the lion share of credit with one very simple passage in his 11:30 broadcast interruption speech. When he said,

And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda

No one seems as yet to have picked up on that. It will come out as the campaign heats up. But nevertheless, as thankful as everyone is including myself that bin Laden is gone, like Bush the 1st, he will lose his re-election bid.

The election is about money and jobs. Foreign diplomatic endeavors are for the history books.