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Mission Accomplished, Mr. Bin Laden
“‘Osama Bin Laden’ said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel”
-Roger Diwan, The New York Times 10/14/2001
That was 7 years ago, and as of this posting, oil is currently at a new record high of $146 a barrell. And with that, Osama Bin Laden has accomplished one of his main goals against the US.
Bin Laden’s goals remain the same, as does his basic strategy. He seeks to, as he puts it, “provoke and bait” the United States into “bleeding wars” throughout the Islamic world; he wants to bankrupt and divide the country as he did to, he claims, the Soviet Union after Afghanistan in the 1980s. The demoralized “far enemy” would then go home, allowing al Qaeda to focus on destroying its “near enemies,” Israel and the “corrupt” regimes of Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. The U.S. occupation of Iraq helped move his plan along, and bin Laden has worked hard to turn it into a trap for Washington. Now he may be scheming to extend his strategy by exploiting or even triggering a war between the United States and Iran… Read more
Benjamin Button
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is being adapted for a 2008 film of the same name.
The story begins in 1860 with the birth of Benjamin Button. Benjamin Button is born with the body of a seventy-year-old man, and when his father first visits him mere hours after his birth he is already able to speak. To avoid embarrassment, Benjamin’s father forces him to shave his beard and dye his hair in order to look younger.
As the story progresses it soon becomes apparent to the Button family that Benjamin is…
The Original Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The America We Love
Barack Obama
The America We Love
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Independence, Missouri
On a spring morning in April of 1775, a simple band of colonists – farmers and merchants, blacksmiths and printers, men and boys – left their homes and families in Lexington and Concord to take up arms against the tyranny of an Empire. The odds against them were long and the risks enormous – for even if they survived the battle, any ultimate failure would bring charges of treason, and death by hanging… Read more