I really don't care!

Thursday-May 5, 2011

I really don’t care!

During the last few days, many people in the country and around the world have been giving their opinions, including me, on the lead up to the death of Bin Laden. His death and the reporting of the details of his death, as I predicted, have become the political question of the day.

Bin Laden changed our country and the world forever. The reason it changed is that we let it and we let him change the way we live. This is why I really don’t care to see the photos of the dead Bin Laden. If the photos are released, I really don’t care if it offends some followers of his empty rhetoric and his now empty façade. I really don’t care if he was accorded the ritual of a proper Muslim burial and the symbolic dump into the sea. I really don’t care about the details of his life and I really don’t care about the details of his departure. The most interesting fact that has emerged is that the occupants of the compound he occupied for six years liked Coke and Pepsi products from the country they hated. Other than that the rest I don’t care about.

What I care about are the true facts of how his capture and death was achieved. However, I don’t think that we need to know those details, because, as I predicted, the revision of history and the revision of how the credit can be given has already occurred.

What I don’t care about are the excuses that Pakistan is giving, while being Bin Laden’s host country. What I care about is the 3 billion dollars in aid we give to Pakistan and how we will deal with that country to insure characters like Bin Laden can’t take refuge there now and in the future. What I care about is the incompetence or the lack of loyalty that has been demonstrated by Pakistan’s leaders. Other than that, I really don’t care about anything Pakistan says or does to reconcile there complicity in terror.

Bin Laden is one of those characters that come to life and whose sole purpose then is to take life. These types of characters come along every now and then and unfortunately the now and then of their existence is the threat that we must get better at identifying. Other than that, I really don’t care about what happens to people like Bin Laden.

To give details of the mission, the capture and the subsequent death of Bin Laden have begun to fuel the flames of his immortality and his martyrdom. Unfortunately, we in this country don’t know the power of martyrdom,, because we have an opportunity to change our leaders and the course they set by virtue of our vote. This is why our system is a threat to the system that Bin Laden would like to have achieved in his name.

The problem with making every detail known for a bump in the polls and to take credit is that someone, somewhere and somehow will make a legal argument against the action. Once the legal argument is made, then the fact that the devil is gone is no longer important. What then becomes important are the facts of his death. What then becomes less important are the thousands that Bin Laden killed in his lifetime in the name of Islam.

An argument is now being made that since the Obama administration classified terrorists as law breakers and not enemy combatants or combatants on the battlefield, his death becomes a legal question. The argument that is being made is that our military shot and killed an unarmed man, who was not a soldier in any army. This might sound crazy but, believe me, the argument is being made. I really don’t care about this argument, because I don’t care about the kind of people who would make that kind of argument.

This is why our leaders must understand that silence is the best policy when an important military achievement is accomplished. The fifteen minute speech announcing his death could have been made in a simple two minute announcement. This is all that was needed. The other details I really don’t care about! The simple way out is most often the best way to bring a very complex and very personal situation to an end. The knowledge that Bin Laden is gone and his body is forever lost in the deep depths of the abyss is enough for me to get on with the hard work of returning our country to a solid footing and bringing closure to the dark era that Bin Laden wrought.

I really don’t care about anything else than that!

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: The secrets of the military action that brought Bin Laden to his ultimate fate are best kept in a file marked confidential. We must trust that our military is doing their job. We must make our leaders accountable when a country like Pakistan demonstrates incompetence that puts the world at risk. Our job is to make sure that we work daily at being good citizens and we exercise our right to liberty and freedom through expression and the power of our vote. We must also remain vigilant so the likes of a future Bin Laden can never perform another evil act here again. Other than that I really don’t care about anything else!