From Washington Post

Renewed Focus on Hunt for Bin Laden

Washington Post Berlin bureau chief Craig Whitlock discusses the U.S. government's push to capture or kill Osama bin Laden before President Bush leaves office, the failures and handicaps of the search to this point, and the state of al-Qaeda and the U.S.-Pakistani collaboration along the border with Afghanistan... .

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As with the CIA orchestrated murder of Che Guevara a generation ago, the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of Americans or American operatives will not stanch resistance by Third World peoples to domination and exploitation by the United States and her Western allies. Rather, upon his death, bin Laden will belong to the ages as a martyr who dared to stand up to the U.S. giant.

The United States of America is a greedy, exploitative, arrogant, hypocritical bully of a world economic and military power. Americans believe themselves to be exceptional—to be deserving of more than their fair share of all things they deem desirable. And Americans never mind seeing other peoples and cultures exploited and destroyed to prop up US hegemony for a few more years.

As long as America retains her present myopic geopolitical mindset, there will always be another Che Guevara or Osama bin Laden to tweak her tail and remind her of how wrong—how immoral—her trajectory has become.

An idea whose time has arrived cannot be destroyed by bombs, bullets, Special Forces assassins, or CIA drones.

D. Grant Haynes