In a move to appear ‘tough on terrorism’, the Democrats in the U.S. Senate have successfully moved a bill to double the bounty on bin Laden’s head from $25 million to $50 million.
Sounds tough doesn’t it?
I mean, wow, $50 million!
The Democrats must be tough on terrorism since they proposed such a bold strategy to bring bin Laden to his knees. The Republicans couldn’t even come up with the testicular fortitude to double his bounty. Right?
Actually, if you put it into perspective, this move by the Democrats is more evidence that they are just as completely ignorant as Republicans and equally as unable to see past their pax americana ideology long enough to offer up any intelligent solutions.
So, to put this into perspective (and, incidentally, speaking of ‘testicular’ fortidue), the New York Yankees paid over $112 million dollars just to acquire Alex “A Rod” Rodriguez (pictured right) from George W. Bush’s own franchise, the Texas Rangers, in 2004.
Anybody with half a mind (which obviously exlcudes most liberals and conservatives alike) would realize that if capitalistic rewards sufficed, bin Laden would have been turned in to the U.S. years ago for a bounty of $87.98.
(In fact, he was almost turned over to the U.S. government by the Taliban in 2001 but the U.S. refused to accept the offer.)
The fact of the matter is that both liberals and conservatives in the U.S. are so blinded by the ideology of their national mythologies as the “city on the hill” and beakon to the rest of the world that they are incapable of seeing what every socialist and every anarchist and every free-thinker sees as self-evident: this will have no effect on either the capture of bin Laden or on Islamic terrorism.
To address global terrorism, the U.S. must first stop contributing in terrorist activities themselves and must renounce the title of the world’s leading terrorist supporting state. Only once the brutal, anti-democratic conditions which create radicalism are removed, will the world have rest from this phenomenon.
$50 million won’t cut it.
Paulitics 
YES! This goes beyond the political ideology which is just used by the US government as a sales tool. To the decades long internationalist failed foreign policy that ideology has been used to sell. We need move our US government away from unilateral military interventions, toward multilateral negotiations.
The real problem is the two party system and it’s corruption by the corporate power elite. We must, come the 2008 elections, vote third parties!
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
Hi “Fidel” (i.e. paulitics)
How’s it going?