In other news, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, Taliban’s #2 man, is still dead
December 27th, 2006 | by Craig R. Harmon |or rather, is dead again.
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5 Responses to “In other news, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, Taliban’s #2 man, is still dead”
By Dusty on Dec 27, 2006 | Reply
Finally, everyone admits he is dead..will this affect anything? I doubt it. There surely is another whacko in line to take his place in the heirarchy of the terrorists.
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 27, 2006 | Reply
Will this have any effect? Well, even the Taliban guy is saying that it will have some effect. It won’t bring them to their knees. As you say, there’s probably a new guy in his place already BUT (and this is a big but) every four to eight years a new guy replaces our President and the replacement makes a big difference from administration to administration. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for much worse, as I’m sure you’ll agree. So a replacement at a position as high up as #2 in an organization is going to have some effect. We don’t know what that effect will be yet.
What makes this announcement significant to me is that the original announcement wasn’t based upon dna or dental records or feature recognition. Rather, it was based upon intelligence that the guy was in the car. We all know how iffy intelligence can be. With the Taliban leadership denying the guy was dead, I was quite skeptical. Now I think the thing is more certain (but only more certain since the Taliban might be lying here to try to shield the guy from further attack).
By Dusty on Dec 27, 2006 | Reply
I don’t think the governing body of the Taliban is set up like our democracy Craig, that is why I don’t think the death of this one guy will make that big a difference. If anything the idiots will now make him a martyr somehow, and men will line up in droves to join the Taliban. They are better at spinning shit than our Decider-in-Chief.
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 27, 2006 | Reply
I just mean that different people have different styles, different temperaments, make different decisions based upon different criteria, have different visions and different estimates of the effectiveness of various strategies, and different abilities, different reactions to changing situations, etc. All of which amounts to a difference made in the organization. Now, admittedly the difference might be for the better or for the worse from the organization’s viewpoint but, unless the replacement has been heavily influenced by his predecessor and profoundly dedicated to continuing his predecessor’s vision and tactics, a difference it will make, in my opinion.
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 27, 2006 | Reply
Another interesting point is that we had intelligence that led to effectively taking out the #2 guy in the Taliban. Unless it was a fluke, that’s got to be good news…well, good for us. I imagine, on the other hand, that it’s quite unsettling to the Taliban.