Why not put an international bounty on Osama Bin Laden’s head? Wanted Dead or Alive. We used to do it. There was a bounty on Billy the Kid, a government bounty…and Pat Garrett, a former friend, sold him out. We all saw Young Guns II right?
Why drop bombs and gather intelligence? It ain’t working. Get one of his own group to turn him in. Let the people that harbour him get a billion dollar reward…its cheaper than what we’re doing now. People will be coming out of the woodwork trying to catch this guy.
Osama will be hiding in some moutain cave somewhere and this old goat herder will look out over the wrecked wasteland that was his fields and scratch his leathery face with an emaciated finger and think: The goats I could buy with a billion dollars!!!
And he’ll call the hotline and we’ll make a TV movie out of it and the old dude will get to visit the Playboy mansion, appear on Leno, and die a fat, happy bastard. Ahh…the American Dream.
I guess the only caveat is if another terrorist turns him in and uses the billion to finance more terrorism. But the US govt should be used to that. We’ve been playing musical fringe groups all over the world for years now. Step 1 – Finance rebels. Step 2 – engineer a coup. Step 3 – install a new government……only to have that group come back to haunt us years later and have to engineer another coup. Is it any wonder rebels don’t make good politicians?
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