Tag Archives: Osama bin Laden

Caught My Eye…

Hello Caught My Eye (CME) fans – congrats for making it to another wonderful Friday. You’ve worked hard this week and you deserve a few minutes just for yourself to read Caught My Eye.

You have my permission!

If this is your first time reading CME, welcome to the almost “award winning” weekly column. In CME, I take a look (sometimes with sarcasm) at stories that I did not have time to write about during this week.

This week I take a look at bin Laden, millionaires, a goat, bras and panties, my political inbox, political practices, a kangaroo and MORE.  Here we go…. Continue reading →

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The Fog of War and Politics

Sorry to my faithful readers for being a little late posting my column this morning…

The first I heard about the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden was when I checked my Twitter feed Sunday night. If you are like me, I check Twitter about a thousand times a day for my news. I have more Google Alerts and Twitter followers than friends…and they are nicer, too.

Soon after hearing the news, my TV was on, the laptop was on, and I was getting ready for the big announcement like most Americans.

I was proud. I was relieved. I was cautiously happy because there are so many bad people in the world that someone else will surely step up and take bin Laden’s place – but we got the sucker and being a veteran of the United States military, I am proud of my active duty buddies!

Many times when something big happens in the world there’s so much information flowing out it is almost like trying to get a drink of water from a fire hydrant. This successful military mission has exceeded our wildest imagination in this information world. Continue reading →

bin Laden: Politics and Credit

So now that most of the “new” news about Osama bin Laden has been brought forth, it’s time to take a look at a couple of angles; the political and the “getting credit” angle.

I don’t mean to say that we won’t learn more about bringing to justice Osama bin Laden, because we will – especially the on the ground reports from those who actually were on the mission (after several parts are redacted) and someone will write a book…then there’s movie… Continue reading →

Justice has been done

There’s not too much more that can be said about the successful mission performed by the United States Military that killed Osama bin Laden.

Congratulations to those who were actually on this mission, those who coordinated it, and to the President and his National Security Team for approving it. THANK YOU!

Now is the time for the United States and our people to be alert – so let’s be careful out there as there are still evil people in the world who wants to do us harm.

There will be more information to come out in the days and weeks ahead about the work that went into this mission – who helped us and who hindered us – and how it was discovered that bin Laden was living in a pretty nice home in Pakistan. Continue reading →