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The American Administration should release the Bin Laden
photo(s). Not because the photos will prove he was killed. Photos on the
internet prove nothing -- just ask Elvis. Not because of "spiking a
football." But because those who celebrated Bin Laden's evasion of G-d's
Justice and American determination should be reminded, in the thousand words
that a picture provides, that there is no evading G-d's justice and that Bin
Laden and his fellow shark food aspirants were writing America's epitaph way
too prematurely. Bin Laden thought America was weak, soft, lazy, and
certainly never could pursue a determined manhunt for a decade. Those who
reveled with him in that belief, those who spiked their own footballs at
America after every terrorist outrage, deserve to see photographic imagery
revealing the stark reminder of reality: There is no evading justice.
Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini all died young. Justice caught up with each.
America does not relent. Even the most incompetent and weak-kneed American
Presidential Administration since that of Jimmy Carter -- and possibly the
weakest and most incompetent in all American history (with apologies to
Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan) -- saw this one
through. They had no choice. The American People would not let Obama
relent. We would not let him close Gitmo. We would not let him put
terrorist leaders on civilian trial in Lower Manhattan. We accepted
enhanced interrogation and rendition, refusing to let Holder lay a hand on
any of those who protected our country during the Bush-Cheney years. Much as
we forced Obama finally to go down to Louisiana and to clean up the mess in
the Gulf of Mexico, after the President and his inexperienced and
unqualified staff fumbled and bumbled by refusing repeated offers of boom
and of assistance from oil-cleaning vessels, so we forced him to clean up
after Al Qaeda -- like it or not.
As the final judgment took place, G-d saw Osama finished exactly as he
merited, measure for measure. He had murdered 3,000 Americans who
perfunctorily had left for work on the morning of 9-11 as they respectively
had done every other morning -- a quick cup of coffee, a brief glimpse of a
newspaper, perhaps forgetting to say "good-bye" or to hug or kiss a loved
one on the hurried way out the door. None saw what lay in store that day,
and thousands who survived them live a decade later with the pain that they
never said "good-bye." Garth Brooks captured that feeling -- the feeling of
never having said "good-bye" to a loved one before he died -- years before
9-11 in his incredible song "If Tomorrow Never Comes." I personally have
lived 44 years with that pain, having been too young and immature
to exchange "good-byes" with my Father as he lay in a hospital bed dying of
leukemia. That pain has wracked me nearly half a century, and it never will
end -- never having gotten to say "good-bye." But at least I have been able
to visit my father's burial site, and I have said "good-bye" there.
For the families who lost 3,000 souls on 9-11 at Osama's inducement, there
were few chances to say"good-bye." The survivors forever will live with
that amplified pain, even as the victims never saw it coming. And, for so
many of those victims, their final remains never were found by the
subsequent crews. Many who died at the Twin Towers never will be found.
They are part and parcel of Ground Zero. Their survivors cannot go to their
gravesites. There is no coming to terms or ultimate closure.
And so it was fitting, in the ultimate measure for measure, that Bin Laden
died a decade later in a sudden hail of frenzy, never having seen it
coming. It was a day that had begun like all others with the three wives
and the 23 kids. And then, from nowhere, with no advance warning, it all
came to thud of a halt. A hail of fire, a blown-off piece of skull, and
tomorrow never came. Only A flash of fire and a last image: that of Uncle
Sam's SEALs discharging their weapons at his head. And, even as those who
survived him never got to say "good-bye," they and their fellow mourners
have nowhere to go to pay their respects. His body is gone, remains
disappeared. There is no gravesite, no marker. As Moses the Zionist
cheerfully sang in Exodus 15:3-5,10: "G-d is a master of war. . . .
Pharaoh's chariots and warriors He threw in the sea, and the most select of
his officers sank in the sea. Deep waters covered them; they descended in
the depths like stone. . . [T]he sea enshrouded them; they sank like lead
in water."
And so Osama, too, promptly sank in the ocean like lead, subsumed by the
mighty waters and the deepest of depths. There is nowhere to go to say
"good-bye, Bin Laden." By now, part of him still may lie on the ocean
floor, part in some whale, part in some shark. Perhaps, by now, a bit even
in some local aquarium's population.
Gone at once. Never saw it coming. Nowhere to be found. Measure for
measure.
That, too, is G-d's justice, as realized by the armed forces of a nation
determined not to relent, not to let its weak and inadequate national
leadership back off. And that is the testimonial power of that photo -- for
every terrorist and terrorist-wanna-be who ever spiked a football towards
America. There is no evading justice, and this United States of America
will not relent.