Bin Laden is dead!
The U.S. military covert operations in Pakistan acted on definitive intelligence by taking out the most wanted terrorist for the last decade, with a $25 million bounty on his head, Bin Laden was able to elude the intelligence community for almost 10 years. In August, a major breakthrough occurred though, and the U.S. intelligence community gained a lead from informants of Bin Laden's whereabouts. It took close to 8 months for that lead to blossom into a full scale operation that could be signed off on by the President himself. SEAL Team Six conducted the operation in the depths of the night with two helicopters. They pulled off the operation with the precision expected from the most elite and deadly force known to man.
What does this mean for the world?
Osama Bin Laden is an after thought at this point because he really has no true control over Al-Qaeda which is now split among hundreds of cells spread across the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and even in the US. This operation and the resulting death of Bin Laden is both symbolic and historic for our country and the world, but in the grand scheme of things it has only raised more questions. Why are we over in Afghanistan again, we killed Bin Laden right? Pakistan Intelligence is either incompetent or can't be trusted, which is it and either way doesn't that present a huge problem for a country with 175 million people? What about Libya we're basically in a stalemate there and soon NATO a.k.a (Almost solely funded by the U.S.) will ask us to once again take control of the situation with our "unique capabilities?" These all are valid questions that have and will continue to be asked at the highest levels of U.S decision making for our current foreign policy stance.
Here's some information about our troop deployments that might answer all these question's pretty easily.
We currently have troops deployed overseas in:
Germany (54,000) been there since WWII
Japan: (32,000) been there since WWII
Korea: (28,000) since the Korean War
Iraq: (50,000) we will always be there
Afghanistan: (close to 100,000) again we will most likely always have some presence there.
We're occupiers, we police the world, we provide military and technological assistance to more than 100 countries, Pakistan alone receives more than $1 billion in military aid from the United States...I'm le tired, however it's quite certain that we'll be spending at least another decade throwing billions of dollars into vast nothingness while CHINA just waits in the foreground for the U.S. to stumble and fall.
The U.S. military covert operations in Pakistan acted on definitive intelligence by taking out the most wanted terrorist for the last decade, with a $25 million bounty on his head, Bin Laden was able to elude the intelligence community for almost 10 years. In August, a major breakthrough occurred though, and the U.S. intelligence community gained a lead from informants of Bin Laden's whereabouts. It took close to 8 months for that lead to blossom into a full scale operation that could be signed off on by the President himself. SEAL Team Six conducted the operation in the depths of the night with two helicopters. They pulled off the operation with the precision expected from the most elite and deadly force known to man.
What does this mean for the world?
Osama Bin Laden is an after thought at this point because he really has no true control over Al-Qaeda which is now split among hundreds of cells spread across the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and even in the US. This operation and the resulting death of Bin Laden is both symbolic and historic for our country and the world, but in the grand scheme of things it has only raised more questions. Why are we over in Afghanistan again, we killed Bin Laden right? Pakistan Intelligence is either incompetent or can't be trusted, which is it and either way doesn't that present a huge problem for a country with 175 million people? What about Libya we're basically in a stalemate there and soon NATO a.k.a (Almost solely funded by the U.S.) will ask us to once again take control of the situation with our "unique capabilities?" These all are valid questions that have and will continue to be asked at the highest levels of U.S decision making for our current foreign policy stance.
Here's some information about our troop deployments that might answer all these question's pretty easily.
We currently have troops deployed overseas in:
Germany (54,000) been there since WWII
Japan: (32,000) been there since WWII
Korea: (28,000) since the Korean War
Iraq: (50,000) we will always be there
Afghanistan: (close to 100,000) again we will most likely always have some presence there.
We're occupiers, we police the world, we provide military and technological assistance to more than 100 countries, Pakistan alone receives more than $1 billion in military aid from the United States...I'm le tired, however it's quite certain that we'll be spending at least another decade throwing billions of dollars into vast nothingness while CHINA just waits in the foreground for the U.S. to stumble and fall.
