The death of Osama Bin Laden....A reality check.

In the movie Pulp Fiction a guy named Marvin gets his brains splattered all over the interior of an old beat Plymouth Duster, or maybe a Dodge Dart. Jules and Vincent end up cleaning the gore out of the car per the instructions of a heavy, known only as The Wolf.

To paraphrase The Wolf, played by Harvey Keitel, Let's not start blowing each other just yet. The announcement by President Obama that Bin Laden now sleeps with the fishes caused people to take to the streets, climb trees and light posts, and generally act a fool. The political types, newsies, and every asshole with an opinion, myself included, has chimed in on what the death of Americas most wanted caveman really means. Most believe that the news is a blow to terrorism. Most believe this is a victory for the U.S.
It isn't.
What it is, plain and simple, is a little piece of get back.
I'm okay with that. If anyone ever deserved killing, it was Bin Laden.

Already pundits are calling this thing a big boost for Obamas reelection. While punching this Neanderthals ticket was long overdue, it leaves more questions than answers, and it ends nothing other than the life of a guy who was sitting practically next door to a military base for Allah knows how long. Whoever steps up to fill his sandals, and someone already has, we can expect retaliation. Bank on it. Since we are dealing with a group of middle eastern hillbillies, this latest news is just a continuation of a long standing Hatfield and McCoys feud on a global scale. This shit ain't over, not by a long shot.

This isn't a victory for the U.S. We chased this schmuck around for the better part of 20 years, long before 9/11. Besides the horrific losses on 9/11, our soldiers have died on foreign soil in multiple wars, all in the name of fighting terrorism, and Bin Laden was the poster boy. We have spent billions. Bin Ladens death isn't a game changer, it's just a shuffle in power. In the eyes of his admirers, his followers, his legend and stature grew with his death. He is now a martyr in their eyes. He got his truckload of virgin goat herders when he entered that big cave in the sky.

What I find amazing is the status that Bin Laden attained, courtesy of our inability to punch his ticket for lo these many years. This guy walked around with impunity for a couple of decades, not to mention making countless shitty videos which riled up his followers to the point of flying planes into buildings and turning themselves into human bombs. When you have a group of zealots who have no problem shoving a pound of c4 up their asses, or under their junk, the death of their leader isn't going to slow them down. Just the opposite.

So let's not start blowing each other just yet. Nothing has really changed. We just cleaned up one long standing mess only to open a whole new can of worms. We buried his body at sea. Let the conspiracy theories begin. If we really wanted to make a statement, we should have left his head on a stick back over in that dusty Pakistani shit hole . Now there's a message that would be understood by a group who probably still wipes their asses with a hand full of pebbles and treat women like livestock.  In the meantime, I'll look with suspicion on anyone who has that terrorist look, especially when flying. No Juan Williams.