What About Bin Laden?

Doesn’t anybody else find it odd or a bit naïve when they read published reports from the Defense Department suggesting the successful destruction of one or our own spy-satellites? Not that we should be amazed at the skill and crafted marksmanship of our countries brave Navy gunners. But that we are able to through adequate use of today’s specialized technology, locate a bus sized satellite approximately 247 kilometers or 133 nautical miles above the earth’s surface, not to mention the minuscule 10 second window of opportunity those gunners had to lock and unload on a target traveling at speeds in excess of 17,000 MPH. FYI, just in case you were wondering, that’s 88 football fields a second.

But what I find really interesting isn’t America’s military strength or technological superiority, but rather its inability thus far to utilize those strengths and other alternative means to hunt down and ultimately obliterate our most hated villain, Osama Bin Laden! After all, could it really be that hard to locate and eradicate one man, when compared to an orbital mass of deteriorating technocratic steel?

Perhaps so....but in the mean time, I think to play it safe and to expand upon our current stance and devotion to global terrorist extermination, we should start looking for ways to capitalize upon the talents of America's most proficient marksman. And do so in a way that suits not only the interests of decrepit Cold War intruments of investigation, but rather looks to decrease its arch rivals overall chances of even limited success.

To employ this tactic to the fullest extent, might I suggest we begin a series of well thought-out highly sophisticated militery bombing raids along the border of north-west Pakistan and south-east Afghanistan, with the mind- set of heading "dead" west till we forever demolish Tehran!!