Osama’s Second Death
Posted on 03. May, 2011 by Paul Craig Roberts in Hot Topics
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans.
Think about it. What are the chances that a person allegedly suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition, afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways for a decade? If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him?
Consider also the claims, repeated by a triumphalist US media celebrating bin Laden’s death, that “bin Laden used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines, and Afghanistan, sending ‘holy warriors’ to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia.” That’s a lot of activity for mere millions to bankroll (perhaps the US should have put him in charge of the Pentagon), but the main question is: how was bin Laden able to move his money about? What banking system was helping him? The US government succeeds in seizing the assets of people and of entire countries, Libya being the most recent. Why not bin Laden’s? Was he carrying around with him $100 million dollars in gold coins and sending emissaries to distribute payments to his far-flung operations?
This morning’s headline has the odor of a staged event. The smell reeks from the triumphalist news reports loaded with exaggerations, from celebrants waving flags and chanting “USA USA.” Could something else be going on?
No doubt President Obama is in desperate need of a victory. He committed the fool’s error or restarting the war in Afghanistan, and now after a decade of fighting the US faces stalemate, if not defeat. The wars of the Bush/Obama regimes have bankrupted the US, leaving huge deficits and a declining dollar in their wake. And re-election time is approaching.
The various lies and deceptions, such as “weapons of mass destruction,” of the last several administrations had terrible consequences for the US and the world. But not all deceptions are the same. Remember, the entire reason for invading Afghanistan in the first place was to get bin Laden. Now that President Obama has declared bin Laden to have been shot in the head by US special forces operating in an independent country and buried at sea, there is no reason for continuing the war.
Perhaps the precipitous decline in the US dollar in foreign exchange markets has forced some real budget reductions, which can only come from stopping the open-ended wars. Until the decline of the dollar reached the breaking point, Osama bin Laden, who many experts believe to have been dead for years, was a useful bogyman to use to feed the profits of the US military/security complex.
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09. May, 2011
[...] bin Laden in 2005 at the Tora Bora mountains (Afghanistan), and now according to Paul Craig Roberts “the Second death of Osama bin Laden”, it is predictable that the US Government’s hourly paid intellectuals could cite a third [...]
Amit-Atlanta-USA
12. May, 2011
Dear Mr.Roberts:
Can you assure me that it’s the Craig Paul Roberts – Fmr. US Asst.Sec.of Treasury that has written this piece of Sh$%? It sounds every bit like the conspiracy theories Pakistani Muslims are known for!
American would appreciate a word of confirmation from you sir!
Sincerely,
Amit-Atlanta-USA
MICHAEL K RILEY
12. May, 2011
You cannot prove a negative. Taking this fact into account, it stands to reason that the U.S. had to proffer "evidence" of bin laden's death in the fashion it did. Had he died of natural causes….as Dr. Roberts suggests, it would have eliminated or greatly reduced the patriotic passion exhibited in the Hollywood-style alleged killing. Never mind that this alleged killing was an international crime. In modern-day U.S.A., the ends justifies the means. There is no more due process nor due diligence. Blind obedience is surplanted above reason and logic. This is the foundation of the new American faith-based nation…..where the truth is the first casulty.