Sorting Thru Suicide

I want to talk about Osama bin Laden because in 1998 he issued a fatwa against the United States and her allies for her "declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims", he issued the attacks of September 11th, 2001, and he predicted that the U.S. could only avenge the attack by dissolving her system of government. Essentially, in regard to the latter, the values and backbone of democracy would fracture and spoil on the fulcrum of the War on Terror. In the name of National Security the retaliation required of the U.S. would expose the depth of its evil. The wealth of democracy would in other words, remain unseen in the face of death and destruction. The military might of which a superpower would use to restore justice would render the power and reputation of its authority and democratic beliefs impotent in the end. Strategically futile and inept, the potential of the U.S. to lose face is not only among Muslims, but among her European allies as well.

"Amid the rift that opened over the Iraq War, Europeans began to question whether they could still look to the United States to provide responsible international leadership." (4, "How Enemies Become Friends," Kupchan)

The United States did not invade Iraq with the blessings of the United Nations. Further, the ways in which she handled her suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp became the object of international disgust. The endgame of her conflicts in the Middle East and Asia seems to alternate between the lesser of evils. The United States had international support after the atrocities that befell the country. The ways in which she responded however made that support run scarce and they played into the ideal endgame of the very villain she sought.

When the air is poisoned with horror, fear, pain, suffering, and grief, only one deep breath of it would be enough to kill. Osama bin Laden used 9/11 to expedite the suicidal path of democracy. When bin Laden sold the noose on 9/11, the U.S. just had to put her head in. And by his regard, America did not disappoint. This is what I mean by the expansion of the battleground into the environment. My generation is witnessing a case study of our country indulging in assisted suicide.