Source: The Financial Times
President Obama calmly announced the assasination of Osama Bin Laden after ten years of him being staked out unsuccessfully by the US administration. I have a feeling that the zeitgeist was to keep him on the wanted list for as long as possible, to keep the flame of Islamophobia alive and also because no-one actually dared to kill him. He was a hot potato. Even in death, his killers were afraid to to bury him on the ground in a traditional way and slyly 'lost' his body in the Indian Ocean.
Obama Hussein Barrack took the unpopular step of killing a man with a name and cultural background not unlike his own, presumably to 'distance' himself from the 'charge' that he was a Muslim (Oh My God!!!) and had no birth certificate, having him dispached in a cowardly, hands-off, hands-on way in order to prove that he was no coward, and to boost his flagging popularity in time for the mid-term elections. There was something rather Shakespearean about the whole sordid affair.
I would have thought that Obama knew enough about history to realise that, no matter what 'acts of bravery' he carries out, these will never be enough for his rivals, or for the fickle public who will soon start baying that he didn't go far enough, that it wasn't him who 'got the scalp' etc., etc.,
Barrack's sin-laden
Shakespearean killing makes
dark blood on his hands.
President buys support
by blowing up 'enemy'.
Hmmm-sounds familiar.