Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead; Campaign 2012, etc
Ding, Dong, the Witch is Dead It’s been nearly 2 weeks since the world awakened to a day with one less terrorist mastermind (“bin who?”). And except for the expected Al Qaida & Hamas condemnations, there was nearly global public unanimity that the world is better off. There was the usual squabbling over minutia – should the Americans have notified Pakistan, should they have read “bin who?” his Miranda rights or shot him if he didn’t have an obvious weapon in his hands, and brought him to trial. Or should they have given him such a respectful Islamic funeral & burial at sea (he got more than he deserved), or have published his death photo. Or should we be jubilant and celebratory over this (what was good enough for the Munchkins is good enough for me, although of course this isn’t the end of the battle). All this matters little compared to the key point that if you mastermind the organization that killed thousands of Americans in a day nearly 10 years ago, you can run, but