Does it take an Einstein?

Does it take an Einstein?
Originally uploaded by Mitch Eaton/bodhi47.

Does it really take Einstein to bring this to our attention. I love this quote. Why? Because I live in a city where this is not self-evident. It's an ivory tower city. A city where people have gotten so used to having people take what they say on faith. And they say a lot. And sometimes what they say is meant to draw your attention away from what they don't want you to know. Today we found out that after 3 years of chasing someone we had already had in custody the estimated 100 billion dollars we have spent in Iraq has finally paid off by killing one guy and his posse. It will not make a difference. For every Al-Zarqawi we blow up there are at least 100 more to take his place. Why does it not matter if we kill Bin Laden? Because the thousands of minds he has molded and shaped in his training camps are like bacteria. They feed and grow in isolation. Once he has germinated them they self-propogate. Al-Zarqawi no longer matters. He is in Heaven with 21 virgins. He died fighting his good fight. Instead of capturing the enemy and wringing him for all he was worth, we martyred him. We continually try to deal with this problem utilizing beltway logic. It's tragic. The jihadists do not have our agenda. They do not care if they have cable tv, a new SUV, a house in the burbs, or a fat bank account. They want to die killing us. That and only that is what they are living and dying for. Be honest, when you figure out that a consequence of your search for truth brings up something you find distasteful or unpleasant you own it as well as the parts that you find good. Does our government really think that we are that easily led around by the nose? That we are so media unsavvy as to not recognize a red flag waved in our face to distract us? So we killed a terrorist. As long as the conditions exist that led to his development are around, there will be thousands more just like him.