Are We Safer?
After spending 1.15 trillion dollars in two wars for almost ten years, Americans finally killed Bin Laden. It made a few tens of thousands of people die in Afghanistan and over 100 thousand people died in Iraq meanwhile. Ignoring the price that we have paid, we can say killing Bin Laden is a victory in the war of anti-terrorists. It did prove that the United States can do whatever she wants to do. Overall killing Bin Laden has more psychological meaning than any other meaning. It satisfies our mood for revenge and comforts the wound we got on 9.11.
When announcing the death of Bin Laden, Obama said that: “The world is safer”. Our President is telling us another lie. If we are safer why does New York City have more helicopters hovering up there and needs more police officers on duty? Why are Americans getting a warning for traveling over the water?
9.11 was conducted by Al-Qaida, an organization. Bin Laden was a leader of that just because he was endorsed by his people. Moreover, as a wealthy person he ran around in a cave while seeking his goal. In my opinion Al-Qaida’s number two leader Ayman al-Zawahiri looks more dangerous and powerful. He had the intelligence to finish his medical studies and he cut up bodies in his life as a surgeon. His eyes have flames of killing. Even though he is not smarter than Bin Laden by common sense we should know that the thread from al-Qaida is not released and we are not safer after Bin Laden was killed. Just think about things this way and you will know what I mean. If little Bush or Obama were killed as a president would American’s power of anti-terrorism be hurt? The answer should be “no!” of course. Therefore I believe killing Bin Laden has no actual meaning at some point.
9.11’s direct leader Mohammed said that Al-Qaida had hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe. If Bin Laden were killed or caught they would unleash a “nuclear hell storm” on the West. I hope that is just a threat. If this is the things that terrorists want to do killing Bin Laden couldn’t make us safer but will give this world big troubles.
One thing we should realize:
All these years Al-Qaida has been hurt ideologically in the Arab world because ordinary people seeking democracy & human rights – notions that are dismissed by Bin Laden. That means we have to act right, and get support from Middle East people. That is the only way to hurt Al-Qaida and no other way works besides this. If Al-Qaida got sympathy in the Arab world there will always be a leader to come up to take the position of the leader who was killed.
To be frank, Bin Laden being killed didn’t give me joy but made me worried. Fighting won’t stop if we keep fighting unless we can kill all of them. Can we kill all of them? Will God bless America to kill all of them? America can do whatever we set our mind to, why don’t we try to turn our enemies into friends and bring peace to our world forever? Why don’t we let mankind learn how to live together in global harmony? I once expected Obama to do something related to that and give us some changed concepts as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. To obtain support in the 2012 election he simply killed Bin Laden to please the public but not do something that will benefit the public in the long term.
