With a great sigh!

Monday-May 2, 2011

With a great sigh!

All the people of the world should all be taking a great sigh of relief today over the news that Osama Bin Laden is dead. In this country, we can now also take that great sigh of relief.

We should be thanking our military and we should also remember the souls that were lost at the hands of that devil. Though Bin Laden was reduced to just a lonely symbol of the movement that he started with inherited wealth, in the end, his corpse gave up his DNA.

We should be taking a great sigh of relief, because this is a game changer, not only for this country, but for the world. It is hard to imagine that one man could have had such an impact over a country and the world at large.

Each generation over the course of history has had a devil like Bin Laden knocking at their front door. Last century it was Hitler. We started this century with Bin Laden and, in both cases, it has been met with the outcome of their deaths. In each case, their death was not as brutal as the pain they inflicted on the innocent. That is what we call humanity.

This is now an opportunity for each Muslim to decry terror and to walk away from Bin Laden’s personal brand of Radical Muslim Extremist ideology. This is also an opportunity to join together as a world to denounce terror and realize the grief that Bin Laden’s brand of terror has brought the world for over two decades.

This is also an opportunity for our country to regain that once solid footing that we all can remember and believe in, it is called patriotism and faith. With this death a great opportunity can arise. It is up to our leaders now to balance this opportunity and move towards abolishing the rest of Bin Laden’s terror franchise operations. The first place to start is the town in Pakistan, where he was killed by a small American military team. This town is also known for housing some of the Pakistani Military.

We can also take great solace in knowing that a lead from Gitmo four years ago led Navy S.E.A.L. team six to this moment.

There was chanting that could be heard outside the White House gates last night. The people who gathered were yelling, “USA, USA”. This is a chant that we have not heard for years. This is that solid footing that made us great and that has brought freedom to many parts of the world.

On today’s date, in 1776, France and Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels to fight a revolution. This was one time in history that arming rebels was probably a good idea. However, we must now consider what these types of deals can create and remember the story of how Bin Laden started his terror network. We must remember that every time the world is confronted with a Hitler or a Bin Laden it is up to free people to answer that threat.

It is also important to remember what the President said last night: that it was his decision to act on the intelligence and it was his instruction that brought the action. We must also remember that it was George Bush who issued the executive order to bring Bin Laden to justice dead or alive. We must slow down and realize that the president did his job and nothing else. It was the military that did the heavy lifting. It was also the lack of necessary actions in the 1990’s that created the window for Bin Laden to kill innocent souls.

This is the history that we cannot forget, but for now we can take that sigh of relief and make sure our leaders take that next step to eliminate the evil that still lurks as a result of each breath that Bin Laden was allowed to take.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: Today, take that sigh of relief and be thankful that you can take that sigh in the free country we know as the USA.