Hey Listen - Osama, Not Obama Is Dead!

The hullabaloo of events that gripped the world the day after Labor Day, the 2nd May 2011, will be written in history books forever. Well this is the day when Mr. Poker face - Barack Hussein Obama - made his milestone speech informing the people of his country and to the world that "Operation Osama" conducted in hush-hush by the United States has successfully killed the man behind the devastating 9/11 attacks in America.

It was only a few days ago when Obama released his birth certificate in the public domain to silence detractors, specifically the Republicans about their allegations upon him of being a foreigner. That was really a silly thing to do...isn't it? Well today, the same cynics who were suspicious about Obama's birth place doubt Osama's death, and now are desperately seeking the death certificate of the fugitive. Just imagine leaving decision making to people who are more worried about the birth and death place of the other? Heaven knows what would happen. Phew!

The social media, Twitter, broke the news to the world before any other media channel...calling for a revolution in breaking news in real time. Minute by minute tweet updates were made by a civilian sitting in Abbottabad about 2km away from the mansion in which Osama Bin Laden was killed. While the whole world is talking about the mysterious hideout mansion in Abbottabad (50 kms -31 mi- northeast of Islamabad), I am still struggling getting my pronunciation right....Abort-taa-baad right? It surely is a tongue twister. As the name suggest, the place certainly aborted the most (un)wanted man in the world...but the sad part is that his followers - the Al Qaeda men - still remain at large.

US voluntarily took ownership of the attack and denied any involvement or assistance from Pakistan's military or Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agencies in this evasion. Moreover, even Pakistan categorically denied any prior knowledge of US raid. Well, even when these clarifications are made, I fail to understand why sections of media and few officials are extensively analyzing Pakistan's involvement, and are going head-over-heels to prove Pakistan's aid to US in these attacks.

Nevertheless, even if Pakistan aided US in operation Osama, so let it be. If Pakistan do not want to admit or speak about it, so let it be. Sometimes, there are things better left unspoken! Rather, the world should be more curious to know why Pakistan is fostering terrorists on their land. What is the kind of support system that Pakistan has given Osama Bin Laden and his men for so many years? Why is Pakistan ISI and military covertly patronizing terrorist outfits?

I don't really think this is the time to spend our resources and energy towards unproductive analysis. In fact, we need to strike while the iron is hot by tying up with US forces to strike at the LeT group which is also breeding on Pakistan soil. This is also the right time to paralyze the already injured Al Qaeda network. In the same breath, we should also urgently withdraw nuclear capability accessible on Pakistan soil...because nuclear prowess can be completely misused by the terrorist groups already proliferating in Pakistan.

It is certainly true when Pakistan reiterates stating that they too are victims of terrorism. But sadly, innocent people of this country are the ones who have become victims of terrorism and not the governing authorities or the military or the ISI who in fact are cultivating these ghastly terrorist acts on Pakistan soil and the world. The world needs answers to these questions....Why?

Of late, immature statements by a supposedly renowned writer are flying around about, "why Pakistan should be declared a terrorist country". Surely, some people have lost their minds. Where would innocent people of this country go if Pakistan is declared a terrorist country? Even more, the aftershocks of doing such a drastic thing will affect progressive and successful countries in the neighborhood, like India. The US is surely doing a good job eradicating perpetrators terrorizing Pakistan and the world. But we must remember that the US will do their job and leave the state immediately. The backlash of such attacks will have a direct impetus on neighboring countries which will have to pay the price of it all in return.

Sanitization of Pakistan is indeed the first step towards stabilization. We all know that Pakistan cannot fight terrorism single-handedly. It needs cooperation of the world to liberate itself from this evil spirit that has engulfed their democracy. Revamping the ISI, military and the governing authorities is what needs to be done first to detoxify the system.

Well, US got justice by killing the mastermind behind 9/11 attacks on US soil. Like the US, even India hasn't forgotten the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai which took away innocent lives. But can India do what US did is the big question? I believe the war on terrorism can be fought with co-operation from the world and it is next to impossible to fight this war single-handedly. What do you think?

Post script

Although I reviewed my write several times to avoid slip-up's between the two similar sounding names - OSama and OBama- I apologise for bloopers if any. Please note that the good guy in my story is Obama and the bad one is Osama.

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Osama and Obama have America has yet to Obama

Well, if you're a solid American like me, was a very good day in your life to hear that Osama bin Laden is no longer among the living. This is a very good thing, and proves that you don't mess with the United States of America, and that eventually we always our man. However, I would like to ask a hypothetical question not politically correct. And that question is something like this;

What is worse, a terrorist on the loose, or leadership that destroys the greatest nation ever created in the history of humanity and turns it into a socialist country and causes its decline of greatness?

Now then, I said that this would be not politically correct and controversial. Okay so, I would suggest to you that when Osama bin Laden planned the attack on the World Trade Center, he deserved to lose his life, Yes, it's too bad it took us 10 years to get him, but he is gone now, and this is a good thing. However, it wasn't really Osama bin Laden, that destroy our economy after September 11, 2001, but was afraid and lack of confidence that has caused Americans to lose money in the stock market and worry about their future.

It was just how much our fault to allow a terrorist made to destroy the strength and integrity and self-confidence of the greatest nation ever created in history of mankind. That should be a lesson for us that we should never worry about a terrorist or a terrorist event, never let fear get the better of us, hurting our stock market, crush our economy or cause us to get out of our way to change our wonderful lifestyle.

Now then, as was our fault for letting Osama bin Laden hurt the strength and character of our nation, even though we met us there for a little while, it is also our fault to elect the President Barack Obama to lead the greatest nation in this world has ever known (FYI, I personally don't vote for Obama).

As citizens in the United States have a responsibility to put the candidate much better than we can find someone who cares about the country, and will keep it strong. It is our responsibility to hold on to what is done in large; capitalism, freedom and liberty. It is not a Socialist nation, and "Joe the plumber" is not an enemy of the people, not the upper class of society. The rich class is not bad, they made their money by providing goods and services for all of us. Capitalism is great, and built the strongest middle class known worldwide.

The United States of America has a savings of $ 17 trillion, and China is only 5.5 and what should be telling you is this; We are still the largest nation, we are not in decline, and we don't need a President running the world apologizing for our greatness or taking this great nation towards socialism.

It is my conviction and I don't want to compare President Obama to Osama bin Laden, that wouldn't be totally fair to do, but I believe from a philosophical perspective and this is my opinion, socialism for America can do more damage than Osama bin Laden believes. And I hope you think about it.

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