By Kevin Foley
Dear OBL,
By now, the real Great Satan has shown you to your quarters and, hopefully, it’s in that very hot corner of hell reserved for the monsters of history. In a few days, Gitmo is going to look like Club Med.
I wanted to thank you for again bringing our country together. You found out the hard way that we Americans have a long memory and the unwavering resolve to make sure lowlifes like you get what’s coming to them. You might want to compare notes with your new neighbor Herr Hitler if you have any lingering doubts.
On that lovely late summer morning nearly 10 years ago, you murdered 3,000 of our countrymen and women in the Twin Towers. You were so proud of your “achievement” as you reveled in the adulation of other murderous extremists until the bombs started falling on Tora Bora.
Yes, you ran, but you couldn’t hide.
In the wake of those cowardly attacks our country was united and we had the support of every freedom loving nation in our determination to destroy the last vestiges of you and your ilk.
President George Bush spent many months hunting you down. He did things that some of us thought were wrong, but almost no one ever doubted Bush’s patriotism or determination for bringing you and your gang to justice. It was under his watch that we began unraveling the network around you. President Obama kept the pressure on despite shameful suggestion by some pundits here that you and he were “on the same page.”
I don’t think anyone was happier to see you shot in the head then the millions of Muslims who have made their homes and lives in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Ever since 9-11 these loyal and modest Americans have had to endure the suspicion and hate of some of their fellow citizens simply because they practice Islam.
I don’t doubt they were as thrilled as everyone else that SEAL Team Six showed you out in their own special way.
We took to the streets to celebrate the news of your demise. At ballgames and on college campuses, at the White House and in our streets, your death provided the coda on an era of terror. You were Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolfman, all rolled into one. But we have never been fearful, we Americans. We’re not the kind of people who succumb to terror.
You probably missed the news since you got rid of your lap top and cell phone out of an understandable fear of being disintegrated by a Hellfire missile.
Over the last nine years, while you were stewing in your venomous juices hidden in one hole or another, we were rushing to aid others around the world. Americans were there with open hearts and pocket books when natural disasters struck Indonesia - the largest Muslim country in the world - Haiti and Japan because we are not only a great nation, we are a good nation.
Our people are compassionate and honest and hard working. Despite our current economic troubles, we love our way of life and most of all our liberty, the things about us you most detested.
We’ve also supported the good people of Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in their struggle for freedom against the oppression of vicious tyrants and madmen – many the guys you embraced.
Muslims around the world now know you were the enemy, not America.
So what have you accomplished after long last, Mr. OBL? You succeeded only in murdering many thousands more Muslims then Christians, mostly innocent men, women and children just trying to live their lives as best they could.
You did nothing honorable. You struck no blow for righteousness. Your crumby life was just a zero sum game. Now you sleep with the fishes in an unmarked, anonymous grave. I suspect ten years from now you’ll be a Jeopardy answer.
Enjoy it down there in the infernal regions. And when you see them, please give my regards to Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Saddam and the boys.
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Kevin
Foley is president of KEF
Media Associates, an Atlanta-based producer and distributor
of sponsored news content to television and radio media. |