05.17.11
Business as usual
Killing Osama bin Laden won’t have much effect on the way business is conducted by the US. The war on terror is too valuable to the national security infrastructure and its attached media.
This wire article, which is long, just repeats the same cant about the nature of the threat.
There are always new enemies. People don’t know what they don’t know. al Qaeda is out there. And we’ll never be rid of Michael Isikoff.
One thing to note. Since it’s a forever war, people have now gone through it into retirement. And the names are changing in the counter-terrorism industry.
Now we have someone named Ricky “Ozzie” Nelson — no joke — as a “terror expert” at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. (Click the link.)
But two weeks after the world’s most infamous terrorist was buried in the North Arabian Sea, there’s a central, lingering question in the sanctums of intelligence and military planning: Who are the new terrorist leaders causing U.S. counterterrorism officials to lose sleep?
Depressing.