osama bin laden - operation geronimo

The operation to capture/kill (depending on your viewpoint - mine is further down) was named Geronimo. This is all to do with the USA's love of the wild west and limited history. Identifying an operation like this helps to drive some kind of wedge between the good guys/bad guys cowboys/indians. They want to be carefull about that kind of talk. The above is a picture of Geronimo from 1887, a very angry man, and with good reason. The Indians when l was growing up were the baddies, now they have (pretty much) world-wide sympathy for the way their way of life and land was decimated. The USA should ensure history does not repeat itself.

As the rather fabulous Aswad said...

"Without a knowledge of history, you're like a vegetable in this society"

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