Osama bin Laden is dead. May he burn in hell.
After years of searching and fighting, America’s military and intelligence forces located and killed the man responsible for the attacks on this nation on September 11, 2001.
Reports are that a team of 40 Navy SEALs stormed a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday afternoon. The raid lasted about 40 minutes and resulted in bin Laden being shot in the head, ending any hope he might have had of having an American civilian trial or even hearing his Miranda rights.
The news of bin Laden’s death rippled across the airwaves and the Internet Sunday night ahead of what can safely be described as the most anticipated speech of Barack Obama’s presidency. Whether you liked the speech is a personal preference, but Obama deserves credit for authorizing the mission.
The questions have long been debated in this War on Terror – What are we fighting for? Where is bin Laden? Are the extraordinary measures the United States has made necessary?
The fight, of course, is one for our freedom and our very way of life. Our men and women in uniform have earned the utmost praise for making Sunday’s news a reality. Every day, they put their lives on the line to root out evil and protect us from harm. They deserve our respect and our prayers for their protection.
Many liberal hands have been rung over the treatment of terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but this week it was revealed that some of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used at Guantanamo did in fact lead to the bin Laden’s compound. That justifies many Bush-era policies and also lends credence to what this column has said for years. Terrorism will only be stopped when we kill all the terrorists. Catch them, get any useful information out of them, and then put a bullet in their head.
The war is not over, but the figurehead has been decapitated. A new one may rise, but they will meet their justice, too.
And Sunday’s news should also serve as a warning call to people all over the world. Do not attempt to mess with the United States. Bin Laden finally learned that the hard way.
Dollar paper days
If you bought this paper from one of our local vendors, you already know one bit of news… the Enterprise now costs $1.
Raising the price you pay for your copy of The Clarendon Enterprise is not something we do lightly.
We know times are hard, and you have a choice of what to do with your money. But we hope you’ll agree that your hometown newspaper is definitely worth your eight bits. The news, information, and specials from local merchants contained within our pages are all valuable and certainly worthy of your hard-earned dollar.
The decision has been a point of debate ever since we raised the price several years ago from 50¢ to 75¢. “Why didn’t you just make it a dollar?” one reader asked me, noting that she would gladly pay the extra quarter. Since then the topic has come up from time to time in our office, but frankly it was the rising price of gasoline that forced our hand. The cost of transporting the Enterprise from our press in Shamrock and delivering it to our outlets at home combined with other cost pressures has made this decision necessary.
And while we’re all feeling the pain at the pump, I’m sure you’ll be glad to know that Alaskan caribou are doing just fine and have not been threatened in any way by this decision. They continue to graze carefree on American soil which holds untold millions of barrels of oil that will likely never make its way to your car. But I digress…
For the time being, we’re holding the line on our subscription rates, and we encourage all of you to take advantage of this lapse in judgment on our part. We will eventually raise those, but for now folks in Donley County can have Enterprise delivered to their mailbox for $25, which amounts to about 48¢ per week. That price won’t last forever, so call now or send us a check to save a whole bunch of money in the months to come. And then there’s always Enterprise-D – the digital edition you can get for only $14.95 per year… for now.
As always we thank you for your readership, and we look forward to bringing you all the news from around Donley County. We think you’ll continue to find the Enterprise is worth your time and your money.
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