Why Did US Forces Bury Osama Bin Ladenâs Body at Sea?
Political, religious and practical factors all played a role.
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Political, religious and practical factors all played a role.
On May 2, 2011, the United States military killed and buried Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader behind the 9/11 attacks. U.S. Special Forces took him out during a raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where he and some of his family were hiding out. After identifying his body, the military brought him aboard the USS
Carl Vinson and buried him in the northern Arabian Sea the same day.
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During his seminal “House of Many Mansions” address, Winston Churchill identified the problem with appeasement in one of history’s most momentous mixed metaphors. “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear greatly that the storm will not pass.”
This insurrection was a clarifying moment for any Republicans who were hoping in vain that things might “go back to normal” after Trump decamped to Mar-a-Lago. For four years, this shrinking cadre of “normie” Republicans fed the conspiratorial insanity that led to the insurrection in ways big and small because they believed that’s what was needed in order to survive.
They would avert their gaze when Trump would retweet QAnon accounts or tell the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” They would try to tiptoe around the crazy, expressing concern about the “deep state” or by attacking the elitist media for not taking the supposedly legitimate but unspecified concerns of their constituents seriously. They’d tell reporters on background that they were “uneasy” about what was happening but not actually do anything about it. They’d offer strained equivalences pointing to “something something AOC” rather than address the termites eating away at their own man