Obama: The Unlikely AssassinA bullet to the head of the world's most notorious terrorist was ordered by President Obama. This stunningly courageous act has been greeted with bouquets of thanksgiving and garlands of awe. The demise of bin Laden at the hands of Obama is the stuff of legend, a perfect narrative to turn rightside-up Obama's reputation, seen otherwise as chronically indecisive, deferring risk-taking to others, acting only when the outcome, in his favor, is assured.
But this narrative is so breathtaking in its contradiction to be equally implausible. Even Obama's own s'mores-around-the-campfire companions have described his role in the Libyan intervention, still muddled and unresolved, as "leading from behind." How is it possible this president, reluctant to assert American power, even loath to admit its exceptional reach and moral imperative, ordered such an assassination?
Because maybe it didn't happen exactly as we've been led to believe. At least it is unlikely to have happened according to the popular narrative. Because the popular narrative has the scent of convenience and desperation.
How best to revive the sagging fortunes of a president with an incoherent foreign policy and beset with debt and deficits, persistent high unemployment, escalating energy and food prices -- all wrecking what remains of the American dream? Inject some Teddy Roosevelt testosterone into an anemic and flaccid president. Have Obama be the one who ordered the bullet to the head.
Yet isn't it all just too fitting, too precious, the classic deus ex machina? Of course, such a notion that Obama didn't actually order the killing must be seen as another irrational posture taken by those hopelessly afflicted with Obama derangement syndrome, pathologically unable to give him credit for anything good. I plead guilty, skeptical of such a conversion, a Halley's Comet style transformation from type -- defying the laws of physics and biochemistry once in a lifetime.
Are accounts promoting a wholly different narrative a work of fiction, instead?
A different storyline would better fit our existential view of Obama >>>
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A good read. It gives details about thoughts many of us have had concerning "Captain Courageous" or "King Stinky" ...