Speaking as a polyglot American living in El Paso, TX, where cultural and language politics are forefront, I am going to go off-topic here and address this “Anglo-American” nonsense. If you mean “Americans who speak English,” the term is “American Anglophones.” Anglo-Americans means Americans of English descent, which hardly encompasses the majority of English-speaking Americans, which also includes virtually all African Americans and a significant majority of Latino Americans. The latter, I can assure you, usually do not want to be called “Anglo” by any means, as well as a growing number of us white non-Hispanic Americans of Irish, German, Italian or other non-English descent. As a melanin-deficient Franco-American whose family spoke French as their first languages in this country from the time of Revolutionary War up until my father’s generation, I cannot help but think of a particular Monty Python reference (not to mention a few French insults) whenever someone tries to call me an Anglo-American. So please, if you mean people who speak English, say “Anglophones.”

Infrastructure! Jobs! Investing in America! Keeping America safe!

I’ve telling you guys, we might as well remove the 50 stars from the flag and replace it with an icon of a Predator drone.

I think that may be the most believable accounting of OBL’s assassination that I’ve read to date.

The issue of the helicopter not being able to hop a wall or take off due to unfavorable air conditions astonishes me. WTF? Calculating air density is basic aerodynamics. Perhaps they thought that the utterly righteous awesomeness of their mission would make the air do their bidding.

Depressing. Really, absolutely depressing. And Obama supporters are aghast and offended when I say I can’t in good conscience vote for this charlatan again.

Heh. “I hate American Exceptionalism, except when it gets me what I want. Then it’s awesome!”

Sorry, there’s no magic in bin Laden being dead for me. Personally, I think if Obama had been thinking about justice, he and his allegedly constitutional scholar self would have been thinking of the power that the rule of law has in the face of evil, the power of making bin Laden face the American people, through the court, through evidence and through witnesses. Obama would have thought of dragging bin Laden to New York to stand trial, to have him sit through hours, if not days, of family members of 9/11 victims making statements to the court. We as a nation had the right to go before a court of law and argue that bin Laden committed an heinous, unparalleled atrocity, not because we feel it to be such, but because the law cannot but recognize it as such. We as a nation had the right to look bin Laden in the eye, and make him feel every bit the damned man he was, not because we felt he was such, but because the law cannot but recognize him as such. We deserved that, we deserved OUR day in court with bin Laden, and Obama cheated us out of that.

The depressing thing about all this is, we are justified before the law to want justice for what bin Laden did. We DON’T need to be “exceptional” to justify our desire for justice. We DON’T need anything but the law–no torture, no secret kill orders, no covert ops, no sneaking around the Pakistani government, no media manipulation. Just the law. The rule of law is on the side of the American people. But what Obama did is not rule of law. It’s exceptionalism. So he wasn’t doing it for us. He had other reasons for killing bin Laden that did not serve the American people’s rightful claim for justice. Yet now he is selling this to us as if this was for justice and for the American people. And it’s bullshit. But Obama will get away with selling us bullshit and cheating us out of the justice we deserve, because the whole thing “feels” good enough and truthy enough to enough Americans.

As far as I am concerned, if any American is OK with that, it’s because they have lost any genuine understanding of the recourse, protection and affirmation that the rule of law really gives us when such profound wrong has been done. And without that understanding, we can convince ourselves that we are satisfied when we demand justice and are given a cheap, cardboard knock-off of justice instead. In other words, we are just stupid fools and suckers, ready to be led wherever propagandists want us to go.

CBS Nightly News with Katie Couric reported tonight that “enhanced interrogation technique” aided in finding bin Laden. Couric even asked whether we should “review” Obama’s choice to end use of those techniques at the start of his term “in light” of bin Laden’s capture.

Heh. CBS cares. Just not about the truth.

Par for the course with Obama: to “justify”, perpetuate, normalize and then inevitably institutionalize the worst things Bush put into effect.

I’m no expert on Islam, but that sea burial didn’t sound right to me. But I guess “gaffs” like that are inevitable when you fire your Arabic translators for being gay.

Snark aside, nothing about this sits well with me. I think they just wanted to get rid of the body ASAP–to not risk turning it over to a country that might be sympathetic to bin Laden’s followers or family, or give it to a government that would allow it to be buried in a public ceremony, or allow public mourning for him in relation to a traditional burial. Their lame attempt at observing Islamic law sounds like typical “reading” into religion practice what you need to support your political agenda. We Americans are good at that.

Smells? It stinks. It reeks. And there’s “liberals” over at the Daily Kos cheering that their Democrat president is bringing home Bush’s most wanted war trophy. I can’t tell you how creeped out by all this I am.

You have the wrong son. The one that is being reported killed in this attack is this son:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Saif_al-Arab_al-Gaddafi

Yeah, I know–those Ay-rab names all look a like. Wiki says he was born in 1982. He wasn’t even 30. Yeah, he’s old enough to being a willing participant, but if he’s the father of those 3 grandchildren, those kids can’t be very old at all. The one I assume you’re thinking about, Saif Al-Islam, is 35, not “almost 40″ and if those are his kids instead, they’d still be pretty young, all under 20.

Regime change Kinetic military action, Machiavelli style.