May 8, 2011 4:59 PM
President Barack Obama relives the tension-filled moments as he and his closest advisors monitored the assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. Steve Kroft reports.
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Sir, you made them wrong. In your mission, every thing worked and the luck also was in your favour.
The clock work precision by the American army, The timings, The White house strategy advising team, The Good will of the American people and their blessings, above all God's grace was in your favour !
President Obama is presiding over a point of criticality in American history when, for the first time, the specter of unlimited borrowing potential or unlimited amounts of future are being bartered-away to keep the wheels turning from one day to the next. Which is a greater existential threat to America - UBL, or a Presidential administration and Congress that serves only itself by proclaiming the need to cut spending - but only the spending that benefits somebody ELSE.
Even despite that impractical impossibility, the government expresses as a core value that the burden of the government's debt and its future obligation should fall SOLELY upon the shoulders of a minority - while the majority bear virtually none. We tax not out of principle but necessity. The so-called "wealthy" will bear a disproportionate burden only because they must, not because should.
And so the government perpetuates a class-divisive society of de facto beneficiaries and the benefactors. The same kind of moral hazard government circumvented in its bailouts of Wall Street and Detroit have been removed from society as a whole by elected officials who can pledge to their core constituencies "YOU won't pay - this is all about getting somebody else to pay MORE, whether or not they can or should."
The so-called "leadership" can't muster itself to enforce among America the simplest of core virtues - that each person owns his $45K share of the $14T national debt - whether or not he can actually pay it, and anybody who contributes less to the government than his pro-rated share of its funding has absolutely NO business demanding anything. Unfortunately, even this basic common sense value is perverted into "the wealthy" wanting to oppress "the poor".
We, as a society have chosen to provide certain "safety nets" that extend well beyond the founding fathers' intent. And it was exactly those founding fathers who placed at the center of the U.S. Constitution a Bill of Rights to ensure that populist sentiment couldn't become mob rule by majority. The notion that certain people can and should be able to receive social support from government ("government" being only what its citizens fund) is not mutually exclusive to the fact that simply imposing one group's wants upon another is precisely the kind of oppressions that caused the Colonies to break free from English rule.
"Freedom" is not the ability to do as one pleases. People can't fly like birds or live to 1,000 years - no matter how much they may desire to do so. "Freedom" is the guarantee that nobody will be subjected to having another's will imposed upon them. This is the ONLY kind of freedom that's possible - and it's precisely what our nation was created to ensure.
And the very first person(s) who'd allege this applies any LESS to one person than an other(s) should be the first person(s) to forfeit the very rights to which they believe they're entitled without any burden of the responsibilities upon which they're predicated.
So, Mr. President, as you've entered your re-election bid, congratulations for choosing the correct option of those presented to you. That's your job - and I expect nothing less. Now, rather than attributing any more significance to UBL's death than just one more agenda item crossed-off the national agenda for the day, I'd like to think your attention will return toward the clearer, more present dangers America faces.
- by GhoustWalker May 8, 2011 10:00 PM EDT
- i was stationed in SanDiego for 14 yrs between north Island and Imperial beach base from mid 60's to late 70's. during that time i made 2 tours to Nam as one of those i was a Combat Rescue Crewman. during my time in SanDiego I was befriended by the Coronado Navy Seals of hume i gort to know very well and commend them of those that killed Bin Laden. i do belive thwe one that killed him was in fear for his life and believed that Bin Laden was goen to attack him as his wife did. WHM USMCUSN Ret
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