Friday, April 08, 2005
Giving Bin Laden the Arafat
Israel would love to have killed, or captured and tried Arafat. But you can't always get what you want. Instead, they declared him "irrelevant", hemmed him in, dimmed his spotlight, and left him to fester in the remains of his slowly rotting guerilla image. Eventually he died, but his image died before he did.
The US would love to have killed, or captured "and tried" Bin Laden. But you can't always get what you want. Instead, he hobbles around the rocky hills, occasionally sending out audio tapes or messages scribbled hastily on the back of toilet paper wrappers (if he even has any toilet paper left). And try as Al Jazeera might, we just don't hear the word Fatwa as much as we used to on the news. Bin Laden might or might not be dead, but with any luck, his image will be dead even if he isn't.
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find, that ya
Get what you need
Oooh, yeah!
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The US would love to have killed, or captured "and tried" Bin Laden. But you can't always get what you want. Instead, he hobbles around the rocky hills, occasionally sending out audio tapes or messages scribbled hastily on the back of toilet paper wrappers (if he even has any toilet paper left). And try as Al Jazeera might, we just don't hear the word Fatwa as much as we used to on the news. Bin Laden might or might not be dead, but with any luck, his image will be dead even if he isn't.
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find, that ya
Get what you need
Oooh, yeah!
Technorati Tags: blog, arafat, bin laden
