A great day for America. While Al Qaeda never came close to inflicting the kind of damage on America that the Carthaginian army did during its fifteen year rampage through Italy in the second Punic war, Osama Bin Laden is the closest thing to Hannibal Barca that America has ever faced. An evil, seemingly larger than life villain bent on the utter destruction of an enemy he hated as far back as he could remember.
While Barack Obama is no Scipio Africanus, full credit is due to him for maintaining the hunt for public enemy number one and having him taken out. Make no mistake about this folks, this was not dead or alive, it was dead or deader. While that forty man SEAL team (God bless them) may not exactly logistically match the Roman army fielded at the battle of Zama, the result was just as vital. While remnants of his organization remain and need to be dealt with, our greatest enemy has been vanquished.
Just a reminder to our friend Iggy, who spent the 2008 campaign frothing at the mouth supporting his messiah's insistence that Guantanamo had to be shut down and that water boarding must be stopped. The guy that fingered the courier that we followed to Osama was being held in Gitmo, and as I type this, Representative Peter King is on The O'Reilly Factor explaining that it was Khalid Sheik Belushi - I mean Mohammed - who gave up that guy . . . after being water boarded.
Hopefully Iggy now understands what the adults among us have always known. We do not live in a world of rainbows and unicorns. We live in the real world, and such measures are needed to combat the forces of evil that are still gathered at our gates. If not, if he stubbornly clings to the belief that being nice to these savages will spur them to see the light and change their ways, we can always fall back on the great Ron White: "you can't fix stupid."
Bob, RI
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
PS - Here's hoping that May Day, socialism's global holiday of the first of May, is forever usurped as Osama Is Dead Day.
