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President not Concerned about Osama

A bit old, but this quote from the 13 March 2002 press conference:

Q: But don't you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won't truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.
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Now, the President is actually being fairly nuanced in his answering the question (big surprise). Killing bin Laden won't end militant Islamic terror. If the US kills him, he will become a martyr and al Qaeda will become even stronger. However, the President should be concerned about bin Laden, because he is a central Robin Hood figure for millions of muslim men. In the last two years, al Qaeda has morphed again. Osama bin Laden has gone from a "CEO" figure leading al Qaeda to a completly decentralized organization with "Osama bin Laden [now serves] more as an inspirational figure than a CEO..." Mr President you should be very concerned about bin Laden, but alas since you cannot even mention his name, you obviously are not.

Comments

Jw says:

Yeah, the complete refusal of anyone to say "Bin Laden" is amazing... it's amazing that they can get away with it.

But it's even more amazing to me that people who support him on an emotional level still can, after he talked about his vows to hunt him down, the lack of rest he'd have until they did so, etc., and then decided to spend a vast amount of his presidency on vacation. During a war.

I don't pray, but I might start, if rational thought doesn't kick in soon.