Letters to the Editor
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Can't harm the wayward son of a good friend
Perhaps the problem is, the bin Laden's are an important and wealthy family in Saudi Arabia and don't want Osama, their wayward son, harmed. "He's really a good boy, just going through a rough patch in his life?" A bit like a certain son of the Bush family a few years back. The Bush's and the bin Laden's go "way back" after all. The folks in the World Trade Center weren't all that important compared to the descendants of Prescott Bush and the bin Laden family. You know, a bit of the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" on the part of longstanding internationally wealthy friends.
Then of course there's the reality that for Bush/CheneyCo. the "response" to the events of September 11, 2001 was never about anything but using a major crisis as a tool to enrich themselves and their friends. After all, you could cause yourself a lot of problems regarding national sovereignty and jursidiction between Afghanistan and Pakistan if you went after Osama bin Laden. Plus, if you actually caught him and locked him up, the world might settle down a bit and the price of oil would drop and Bush/CheneyCo. and their oil baron friends would lose a lot of money. We can't have that, now, can we?