Its not WHO but HOW and WHY...Obama Saheb!

Obama is grinning from ear to ear! He is the toast of not only the town but the whole of the American nation! After all he has wiped out the most dreaded terrorist in the world! What Bush could not do in two terms, Obama has done it in one only! Hence, he sure is a happy guy. Americans are celebrating this with a frenzy that outweighs the thanksgiving also! Such is the power of the machinery called Propaganda. I am reminded of Bhindranwala. One can see that Osama was to America what Bhindranwala was to Indira Gandhi.
It is not the killing which is significant. It is the manner in which it was done. Brazen, cold blooded, sodden in arrogance and one which sends a chill down the spine of lesser nations! It shows that the Americans have scant respect for International protocols. It is another aspect of the Jungle Raj. Might is right as one muscles ones way least bothered of the possible repercussions. Today, a nation stands undermined and humiliated.
We re not debating what Osama was. We do not debate why he was never on the CIA’s web list of wanted terrorists for 9/11 and yet Obama has related him with this and has garnered sympathies so as to shoot up his rapidly declining public rating! Just one of the many contradictions involving this “shoot out at Abbotabad”.
I write with a sense of trepidation and consternation. A feeling of fear of things to come. The modus operandi used in elimination of Osama is a sign of the times. Here is a group of elite commandoes flying into another nation, making a mockery of sovereignty, shooting the target dead at point blank range. The body is picked and taken from one nation to another and finally dumped into the sea. All this is coming from one of the most civilized nations. From the nation that teaches others about the freedom of expression and freedom of democracy and freedom of values. If one has to be taught a lesson, then it should be done, no doubt. But within the rules of decency and civilized society. Any one who is a scourge on society needs to pay for his misdeeds. Catch the man and bring him to justice. Put him before law. Try him for his crimes. Like what was done to Slobodan Milosevic. Taking law into your own hands is not the best example set by the most progressive nation on earth. What would the US do if India does the same to get Dawood ? The term sovereignty would loose all meaning. The world has watched in disbelief. Violence has been preferred and chances of truth coming out in the open have been buried forever….deep down where none can reach. It will always be felt that the accused should have been given a chance to prove his innocence. India stands out in the way it treated a sadistic killer Ajmal Kasab and gave him all the chances to prove that he in innocent. Obama needs lessons from India.
Wanted Dead or….dead! Yes, this seems to be the motto of the forces chasing Osama. It appears that they could have possibly apprehended the unarmed old man. But they decided otherwise. Why? Deadly silence from those who matter. Since the time they went out to “smoke em out” policy, they have bunged thousands of tones of bombs on just about any place they thought he was hiding in. This hurt not only the poor society where the bombs were dropped but also the economies of nations! Who benefited?
Now I come to the whole drama that has been enacted. Pakistan and the US are hand in glove in this rather filmy sordid episode. However, none can admit this openly for obvious reasons. Hollywood and Lollywood combined!! As per the news reports, Osama has been staying in the house for almost five years, oblivious to the nosey parkers of all so called “smart intelligence agencies! US is blaming Pakistan for its intelligence failure. And we are to believe that the CIA- the mother of all intelligence agencies across the world- and which is all over Pakistan, does not know this on it’s own!! Have a heart , Obama, yes, people are gullible and innocent and the civil society is very forgiving. But to swallow this one has to be more naïve than the silly dodo! And what to say about the frequently changing versions of the whole act! Once we hear that Osama was unarmed and trying to hide behind the skirt of his wife! Then we hear that he was killed in gunfire exchange and then we hear that he was killed by one other than the Americans! What do believe?? But one thing is for sure, I cannot imagine Osama, a man first fighting the Russians and now the Americans for nearly three decades, will run away from death! Going by the earlier reports in the media, he was fighting for a religious cause and such people would be looking forward to embracing death! Mission accomplished, is what he would say and not hide behind a skirt to save a life that he always wanted to loose!
And the last video that we saw on the TV adds more mystery and makes things murkier. We are shown a video of Osama using the remote control of a TV. If one notices, this is in the right hand. Now, go back to the scene so frequently shown on the TV-Osama firing a machine gun. Notice the hand? He appears to be a left hander! And why would a leftie use the remote in his right hand? Unless that hand has been left behind in the Tora Bora! And yes, why did Osama get himself filmed from such weird angles and then leave the cassettes for the Americans to conveniently discover?? Elementary , dear Watson!
No civil society permits killing of innocents. Whosoever is guilty of doing so should be punished severely. No mercy. But there should be one law for the same crime. When asked to relate 9/11 with 26/11, the Americans have looked the other way!! They were deaf to the shrieks of the people who lost their dear ones in the Mumbai Massacre!
The buzz is that Obama thought that if Bush could resurrect the ghost of Osama and win his otherwise almost lost elections, then a dead Osama should surely get him a second term! And the deal is “buy one, get one free! Free is the exit from the labyrinths, quagmire of the monstrous Afghanistan!
My fear is that this John Wayne type of action might be counter productive. Swooping into another nation under the cover of darkness and technology, smashing the guy to smithereens, collecting the body and flying off to dump it into the sea may just about make the killed a martyr. And this would spell disaster. Not only for the Americans but for the world.
We can only pray that such juvenile bravado by the gun slinging Obama does not create more Osamas.