9/11 Cartoon

"Osama Bin Laden? Now there's something for the old "Where are they now" file!" -Jon Stewart December 2006

The cartoon above by Jeff Koterba I believe really portrays just how off track we are now from where we started on 9/11. September 11, 2001 is a day that will be embedded in America's mind forever. It is the day we "lost our innocence." Our President promised us that we would get back at the people that did this to us. An "eye for an eye" if you will. Fast forward to January 2007, over five years after the twin towers fell, Osama Bin Laden is nowhere to be found in the middle east or in the newspapers.
Osama openly admitted to orchestrating the 9/11 attacks through the Al Queda network. Sure we looked for him for a little while but it got so tiring! Oh, and all the sudden Iraq has weapons or mass destruction. So over we go to Iraq to a war that has gone on longer than World War Two, and guess what: no WMDs. All of this to honor the people who died on 9/11. But wait, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So how are we honoring them?
This cartoon suggests that the best thing to honor our fallen Americans would be to capture and kill Osama Bin Laden. I don't necessarily think that the best way to honor them would be to kill a seven foot Arabian madman, but I do believe this cartoon reminds Americans what we have forgotten.