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No Tears for Osama; No Cheers for US Imperialism
What struck me initially about the announcement that al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden had been killed by United States forces in Pakistan, was the odd framing by mainstream corporate news networks: "This will be one of those moments when people will remember where they were when they heard the news."
Really? Nearly ten-years after bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, thousands of American service women and men and tens of thousands of citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq have been killed in the name of what was essentially a pogrom of retribution in the name of American imperialism - and all the mainstream media can do is present this moment as the digital generation's ready-made D-Day?
Let me be clear: I shed no tears for bin Laden, whose murderous beyond-the-State reign, left nothing but death, grief and trauma across multiple continents. But the pursuit of bin Laden was not justification for what has been an escalation of violence and de-stabilization in the Middle East and Northern Africa, by two American Presidents.
As surely as George W. Bush marshaled U.S. military forces in the name of goals motivated as much by political desires as they were motivated by legitimate foreign policy concerns, his successor Barack Obama is complicit in the same desires. The killing of bin Laden is the apex of what the President might described as the "best week ever," particularly after his appearance of Oprah this afternoon (taped and widely speculated on in the blogosphere last week).
As I watched the chants of "U-S-A" travel throughout Philadelphia Citizens Bank Park, where the New York Mets were ironically playing the Philadelphia Phillies (and for the record, I was watching the game when I first heard), and later glimpsed the cheering crowds gathering at ground zero in New York and across from the White House in DC, I kept wondering what folks were celebrating.
Like the day after the capturing of Saddam Hussein, none of us are safer with the death of Osama bin Laden. And indeed, the military and civilian personnel who've had their feet in the ground in places like Iraq and Afghanistan are no safer today either. If folks were in fact celebrating America's capacity to "get it's man" - as if this one now dead man held the key to all that ails our country - they are sadly misguided.
To be sure, the families of those who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks and in U.S. military service since then - and have had the revisit those losses every time their loved ones were evoked in the name of yet another military operation - are not celebrating today. We all hope that the killing of bin Laden will bring closure to those families (though we are fully aware that it won't), but what will bring closure to us? That question, I suspect will not be so easy to answer.
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By: Jeanne Dakota on 5/02/2011 3:10PM
I appreciate your voice of reason in the midst of the uninformed reactivity that makes up so much thinking in the "social commons" these days.
One of the costs of the 9/11 attack has been an increase in irrationality, emotionalism and unbridgable divisions in Americans' political discourse. Focusing hatred on bin Laden is easy. It's harder to understand how and why terrorism against the U.S. grows.
Celebrating bin Laden's death is probably an emotional release for many, but it sure isn't closure -- it's just the end of one chapter in the continuing saga of the worlds' hatred of us.
Closure for me would be the nation coming to terms with and changing its role in the world. But for those dancing in the streets today, I suspect that US changing isn't what they'd think of as a positive development.
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By: Eugene on 5/03/2011 3:36AM
Jeanne Dakota:
You are absolutely correct that the death of Osama bin Laden is an emotional release. It is a like getting a 10 ton gorilla off of your back, which is why you are seeing the celebrations taking place in cities across this country.
By the way in my opinion Americans are not that naive to think that with Osama gone everything will become peaches & cream.
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By: Dianne on 5/04/2011 5:19PM
1Book of Samuel Chapter18 verse 6
6When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with tambourines and lutes. 7As they danced, they sang: "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands."
Isn't this the David they sang about in their dances: "`Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands'?"
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart.
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By: Dianne on 5/04/2011 5:24PM
1Book of Samuel Chapter18 verse 6
6When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with tambourines and lutes. 7As they danced, they sang: "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands."
Isn't this the David they sang about in their dances: "`Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands'?"
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart.
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By: fncao on 5/11/2011 11:59AM
The killing of bin Laden is the apex of what the President might described as the "best week ever," particularly after his appearance of Oprah this afternoon (taped and widely speculated on in the blogosphere last week).I am an Air Force and single at present .I need a woman who can love me back ..I also uploaded my hot photos on Uniformedmate .C oM under the name of hoho212..It's the largest and best club for seeking Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Police Force, and the admirers of those who wear the uniform.I just hope you don't mind me being a soldier ...Please Check it out!I'm serious.
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By: Kalynn on 5/02/2011 3:13PM
Why don't you just leave the country for a country you can cheer for! I personally am glad to be here, with all of the good, the bad and the ugly...gives us all something to work on!!! Life security!
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By: Visionarybirt1 on 5/03/2011 5:22AM
Why don't you learn how to THINK, and stop regurgitating that "love it or leave it" rhetoric. If you disagree with someone line of reasoning, offer a counterargument to refute it....with REASON, not simply a childish emotional tantrum.
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By: darrell eason on 5/09/2011 3:51PM
Thank you Kalynn, and I echo your sentiments. I think, some people you just can't satisfy, no matter what you do.
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By: Gwendolyn Foster on 5/02/2011 3:27PM
And your point is...
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By: Gwendolyn Foster on 5/02/2011 3:26PM
Change has come! It has not been and will not be rapid; positive change is usually evolutionary and destructive change, revolutionary.
For the change you seek to be complete will require change in the people of the US (meaning us). We have not accepted that yet and until we do, change will not be complete. We are no longer the idiots that the world viewed us as just a few years ago.
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