Ding Dong

So Wifey, D2, and I were watching TV in bed, when D2 got a text from D1: "Put on CNN --Bin Laden is Dead."

We did, and got the biggest news in awhile. After 10 years of hunting him down, the really bad guy is dead. Apparently a long surveillance led to a Navy SEAL raid, and they took him out.

I don't know any SEALS, but I have 2 friends who do. Both have told me that they make jet fighter pilots, the so called Top Guns of the Navy and Air Force, look like schleppers. Apparently SEALS are fit, tough, brilliant, and CONNIVING. My friend Matt just put together a business providing security for commercial ships, using retired SEALS. His main problem is they tend to not want to just shoot approaching pirates. They think it more "sporting" to let the rag tag invaders on board, let them think they're going to make a lot of money with ransom, and then hunt them down and embarrass them while they kill them. No wonder it was the SEALS who got Bin Laden...

9/11 was nearly ten years ago. D2 was in Middle School; D2 in Elementary School. They've grown up, essentially, with Bin Laden as a boogeyman.

From what I've read, he has become strategically less significant over the years. We always get a kick out of how much our Rabbi friend Yossi looks like him --we wonder if he gets stopped a lot boarding airplanes.

But symbolically, this is enormous. It shows that, while it may take time, eventually the US government will find you and get you, if you mess with us.

A lot of the FB posts this am have disclaimers: "While it's not proper to celebrate the killing of another person..." Por Favor! This type of liberal whimpering is sickening.

Bin Laden was a mass murderer, and if given the chance, would do it again and again. It's a relief he was taken off the planet, and "buried at sea" to prevent his moronic followers from making his grave a shrine. I can imagine the SEALS giving him a holy send off as they pushed his rotting corpse into the ocean. I'm sure all religious protocol was properly followed.

So the wicked one is dead. What luck for Obama to have this happen on his watch. The early pundits say this will guarantee his re election. They forget Bush I's amazing ratings following the end of the Persian Gulf War, and his plunge and loss to Clinton shortly therafter, on account of the economy, as the Boss sings.

We're headed to NYC in 3 days. The mood will be celebratory there. I look forward to it.