Osama Bin LadenWhy Bin Laden Isn't Worth Worrying About -- Time Magazine
Osama bin Laden has claimed responsibility for the failed bombing of a Northwest airliner on Christmas. That's not surprising, but what should be is that it took him nearly a month to do so. Either it took all of that time for news of the plan to reach him, or he's lying. And if he's lying, we need to consider that the man is completely irrelevant.
And why would bin Laden claim credit for a failed attack? The point of terrorism is to carry out your threats — that's what terrifies people. Take Lebanon's Hizballah, an organization whose early days were steeped in terrorism: it made a point of never botching an attack, bombing or kidnapping. So when Hizballah said it was not going to stop until it drove the West out of Lebanon, that threat carried a lot of weight. And the credibility of Hizballah's threat convinced U.S. President Ronald Reagan that Lebanon was lost, which prompted him to withdraw the Marines who were stationed there. In the Middle East, this is not stale history; and it's a history that bin Laden certainly hasn't forgotten.
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My Comment: Who knows what Osama Bin Laden is doing or planning. Our information on him is scant .... if non-existent .... and what information we have on him is from sources that have either been filtered and/or manipulated by those who are loyal to Bin Laden's agenda.
So .... should we be worried about Osama Bin Laden? I would have to say yes. His biggest impact on the world wide Jihadist movement is one of symbolism. His demise will be a morale victory for us, and even if he becomes a martyr .... I would still say it is a good thing to see him out of the picture.
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U.S. intelligence officials said they were studying the tape, the third this year from the terror fugitive who is believed to be hiding along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Digital Memory sure is becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. I wonder when we will finally reach the ratio of 1c to 1 Gigabyte.
I'm quietly waiting for the day when I will finally be able to afford a 20 terabyte hard disk . But for now I guess I will be satisfied with having a 16 GB Micro SD Card in my R4i.
(Posted on Qezv2 for R4i Nintendo DS.)
My friend and I were recently talking about how we as human beings are so hooked onto electronics. Reading this post makes me think back to that discussion we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as the price of memory falls, the possibility of copying our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could encounter in my lifetime.
(Submitted on R4Net for R4i Nintendo DS.)
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