Not since Hitler had someone so savaged both the United States and the world with sadistic terrorism. The blood of thousands covered him. He bathed in it.
My only regret is that he wasn't killed in the way so many of the 3,000 people who lost their lives at the Twin Towers were killed. He should've been doused with jet fuel and set afire or taken to a skyscraper and pushed.
As I read the media accounts Monday, I still felt euphoric like just about every American. As I read the accounts Tuesday, I could sniff the time-honored media seesaw of propping up to tear down, poking for holes of controversy, whether they existed or not.
As I read the accounts Wednesday, the pseudo-holes became pseudo-fissures. As I read the accounts yesterday, I realized why so many out there hate the media. I am a member of the media, a proud member, but right now I hate the media, too.
It has done the impossible.
It has virtually turned Osama bin Laden into a victim - mowed down when he was unarmed, deprived of his rights under international law, buried the wrong way at sea when it was only American benevolence that prevented him from being cut into little cubes and fed to the goats.
There have been endless reams of crapola over whether the government should have released the picture of bin Laden after he was killed. Obama said no, and who cares about the picture anyway except for necrophilia freaks? The man is dead. Why inflame zealots looking to maintain the fire of their evil?
On Tuesday, the New York Times had a front-page story in which it claimed that a national debate had been revived over the use of interrogation techniques of suspected terrorists, including waterboarding. Framing the story as a "national debate" was the raison d'etre for the story. Have you heard a single person debate this outside the political whoremongers of Washington?
