re: #162 Cato the Elder

That’s a lot of videos, and I’m working. Thought maybe you could boil it down.

I just watched them, and thought they were pretty good. Considerable time was given to truther David Ray Griffin to express his view that bin Laden is likely dead and the government is using bin Laden as an Emmanuel Goldstein figure. The authors of the documentary suggest that reports of bin Laden’s illness and funeral aren’t verifiable. The report bin Laden was ill with kidney failure came not from the American Hospital in Dubai, but may have come from Saudi and Pakistani intelligence services. Also, the video suggests that the U.S. relied too heavily on tribal troops during the early days of the Afghan war and this weakness allowed bin Laden to escape Tora Bora into Pakistan. The video makes a persuasive occam’s razor argument that manhunts are difficult. It took 15 years to track down Adolph Eichmann, 18 years to apprehend Ted Kaczynski. Furthermore, bin Laden is seen by a hero of the people in the area and he has ample support.