OSAMA’S PROTECTOR
For almost 10 years, many Americans believed looking for Osama bin Laden, the world’s most notorious terrorist, was like looking for a needle in a haystack.It was like he had disappeared from the face of the Earth. Everyone had an opinion on where he might be found hiding…The Real Walrus was with the majority who would have bet the farm that he was lying low in some stinking mountain cave on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Then, out of nowhere, we found him. Actually, Navy SEALS found him this past Sunday and with two bullets ended the hunt for bin Laden.
So, where had Public Enemy No. 1 been hiding, at least for the past six years? In a MANSION in the Central Pakistan city of Abbottabad….The million-dollar compound, with walls and barbed wire, stuck out like a sore thumb in Abbottabad, a military town…In fact, Pakistan’s national military academy–its West Point–is only 800 yards away from the bin Laden mansion. In the irony of ironies, U.S. military officers were teaching classes at the military academy while bin Laden was living it up just down the street.
It’s inconceivable that the Pakistani government could not know that bin Laden was in Abbottabad. Those living in that town would have had to be deaf, dumb and blind…Yet, Pakistan insisted right up until the bin Laden raid that it did not know the whereabouts of the terrorist.
In recent days, a Talking Head on television said something pretty dumb: “WE SHOULDN’T MAKE WAVES BECAUSE WE NEED PAKISTAN TO HELP US FIND AND FIGHT THE TERRORISTS.”
No. The truth is we have no choice but to put up with Pakistan. It’s not in our interest to have an unstable country in Southwest Asia with 100 nuclear weapons.
It is what it is….
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