This should be a blockbuster week for unbelievable events, we are told by the keenest of Americans: first bin Laden ends, then war does.
There is scant question that the history books of the imminent future will credit President Obama with a supra-human feat, bringing down bin Laden. Mr. Obama’s critics on the Right should respectfully swallow this pill instead of arguing over its inpalatability.
The effetes on the Left, who used to be so darned embarrassed when crowing, seem to have instantly conquered that defect. They declared last night that Mr. Obama — briefly, falsely believed to be mortal — regained his supernal footing when he pulled off the first provable miracle since the parting of Ballona Creek.
The Left’s guy pulled the lever; therefore the bin Laden accomplishment is sui generis.
Turns out The Three Wise Men did not die after the first Christmas. They walk among us today.
Said Peter Beinart of the Daily Beast: “The war on terror is over.”
Said the ubiquitous Robert Greenwald of the Bravenew Foundation: “With al-Qaeda driven from (Afghanistan) and Bin Laden dead, the rationale for war is over. It’s time to stop now.”
Said Ms. Katrina van den Heuvel, the longtime editor of The Nation magazine: “It is time to bring an end to the senseless war in Afghanistan.” America, she shrewdly added, should develop “a new and more effective security template” that “does not allow ‘war’ framing to define the national psyche and our politics.”
Hey, Mister, How About a Balloon?
All of these brights would be correct on one condition:
If all Islamic extremists in Culver City and elsewhere could be stuffed back into a box, as if it were cereal instead of Islamic rads mushrooming across a freshly varnished floor.
Are The Three Wise Men so narrow in their reasoning that they think post-bin Laden Islamic rads will shut their raggedy suitcases, roll up their frayed trousers and shlep back to their desert outposts like balloons just emptied of air?
When you utilize one eye instead of both, it is convenient to ignore how much of a Bush template is being followed by the Obama administration. The President rails against Mr. Bush almost daily while hoping you will not notice that he is planting his expensive Florsheims into the prints first made by Mr. Bush when he successfully launched the War of Terror.
Keeping up with the — Oh, No
If our effete worthies on the Left think that wiping out bin Laden will be the President’s Get Out of Jail card for the rest of his political life, may I remind B. Hussein Obama about his namesake, S. Hussein Jones, known to the world as Saddam.
Four and a half years ago, Dec. 30, 2006, on President Bush’s watch, S. Hussein was wrestled to the ground and dispatched with a one-way train ticket to Islamic hell. S. Hussein was running a country, older readers may remember. Bin Laden was just running.
S. Hussein’s demise, in the large picture, had the same effect on the War on Terror as last year’s death of my insurance salesman.
Adults who have learned that fame is fleeting should nudge their seatmates on the Left and remind them not to hold a funeral for war just yet.
