Execution of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The sorcerer’s apprentice has finally been killed. But no one should forget that Washington first armed Osama bin Laden to fight against the Soviet Union, its archenemy during the Cold War. But the puppet eventually became the puppeteer, the prince of terror who brought so much suffering to thousands in the United States and elsewhere. As much as his acts screamed out for revenge, a constitutional government shouldn’t resort to the extralegal measure of assassination that, provided it happened as reported, is exactly what took place in this nighttime action on foreign soil. Other mass murderers have been held responsible by courts of law.

As much as families and friends of those victims of 9/11 terror may now feel avenged, in the final analysis President Obama lowered himself to the same level as those for whom human life has no value when he issued his order to carry out the assassination. It’s highly possible that silencing Osama bin Laden forever was the best solution for the United States, sparing it many uncomfortable truths. Truths such as the fact that the “War on Terror” has already cost far more lives than just those lost to terrorist acts. Capturing bin Laden was once trumpeted as the justification for the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan. His liquidation 10 years later does nothing to change the reasons for terrorism in the first place.