What bothers me most about this whole thing is that somehow people think we’ve won something by killing Osama bin Laden. When I look at the whole thing, all I see is that he won, not us. He tried to bring down the WTC in the 90s and it didn’t work. So he figured out what would work and brought it down in 01.

Did he hurry? no. It wasn’t about the when but the what. He chose the WTC for a reason and that reason was money. Did he care about money? no, but he knew we did and still do.

To use a metaphor, the US is like a four-legged table and Osama bin Laden kicked out one leg. We noticed and it hurt but instead of fixing the leg, we threw a tablecloth over it and decided to go after the dude that kicked out the leg. The money we should have used to fix the broken leg, we’ve used to go after a ghost; something that doesn’t exist except in our eyes as a man, a bully. He made the table unstable and that’s all he had to do. The rest we are doing ourselves; every time we try to put something on the table, it shows it’s instability; there is not enough support.

He might be dead but he is still winning. He has bankrupted this country, and that was his intention. We will never recover. Billions and billions of dollars spent for what? Lives lost, for what? What have we won? What are we trying to win?

We should fix the leg.