It appears as though we are closing in on Osama Bin Laden.
Sept. 8— The hunt for Osama bin Laden has been narrowed to a 40-square-mile section of the Waziristan region of Pakistan, senior U.S. officials told ABCNEWS.“[It is] a very hostile area in terms of geography, mountains, terrain, ravines and two ferocious tribes, the Wazirs and the Mahsuds who dominate the area,” said Dr. Akbar Ahmed, professor of International Relations at American University in Washington, D.C.
Authorities are casting a net around the towns of Angoor Ada and Wana in southern Waziristan, which are infested with al Qaeda supporters, but it is a difficult and dangerous area to operate in.
Great. Let’s move in and kill the piece of scum. That will be one less murderous, fundamentalist Islamic terrorist that we will have to worry about.
However, it must be reminded that the capture of Osama Bin Laden will NOT mean the end of the “war on terrorism.” We are not fighting a method of war (terrorism as such) but rather we are fighting against an ideology (Islamic fundamentalism). We will not guarantee victory by eliminating the method (terrorism) by which the Islamic fundamentalists are waging war against us. Nor we will guarantee victory by eliminating the terrorists themselves. Instead, we must eliminate the ideology by elminating the sources of its power: the states which sponsor it. This means, that in order to win the “war on terror” we must eliminate the source of Islamic fundamentalism, not just the people who carry it out in practice. This means, that we must ruthlessly eliminate the governments that are ruled by Islamic fundamentalism (such as Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc.), thereby eliminating all support for the Islamic fundamentalists who are waging war against the ideology of this great country of ours, America.
