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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Don't be Complacent

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

Osama Bin-Laden is still out there. He exists, it seems today, more as figurehead than real boogieman. His continued existence beyond the power of the "Great Satan" to harm is perhaps at the current time his greatest threat to the non-Muslims around the globe. In that, he does indeed remain a threat because this alone can say "see, they can be defeated".

However, even if tomorrow we learn that Osama bin-Laden is dead, we cannot be complacent. Someone will pick up his mantle. We cannot know if that someone will be a Mussolini to bin-Laden's Hitler, or a Stalin. Even if bin-Laden is dead, we cannot stop this conflict, unless we wish another 9/11/01 in our near future, until those who would carry terrorism beyond their own borders are imprisoned, or better yet dead.