>Now there is a phrase that leaves me undernourished. This story is unfolding. How did that part happen?
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They said they respected Islamic tradition - i.e. buried the same day. No grave, no shrine. ( and the ability to have the body in a freezer in Langley someplace with nobody able to prove it, but available for tours for key unbelievers - i.e. heads of critical foreign intelligence agencies.)
Be assured he's dead. Be assured they are sure. Be assured they have pictures, videos etc. There may even be a head in a box someplace. There is certainly DNA proof.
Just because you don't see things on the evening news that doesn't mean they don't exist.
And remember there was probably a "take" of computers etc in that compound that they aren't talking about at all.
Let the "Arab street" spin this however they like. But this is a message the right people understand. Of course the nonsense about our friends in Pakistan is for superficial public consumption. But Pakistan gets the message. ISI gets the message.
This is the way the war should be fought. And this is how it will be won.
My heartfelt thanks to the watchers on the wall.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
