Robert Clements ".Osama in Pak.er.Afghanistan." -TOI Dec 8th "Aha! In the caves of Pakistan..er..Afghanistan you look for me? But it isn't there I hide.
I hide in the minds of men! Why should I seek the dark, loneliness of stone and rock when your soft inviting mind invites me in? In Obama's country I hide in the white man's mind.
I come out whenever he sees not his president but a black man in his Whitehouse, I snigger as I hear him whisper, "Bloody nigger!" And in the country that supposedly harbours my caveman existence I live in the minds of religious zealots, whose tempers rise in fury when they behold church, temple or Buddhist statue! Men, who with holy book in hand, but intolerance in their mind, wipe out others who bend their knees differently when they worship God.
I laugh to see those missiles fly into yonder cave when me who you search for exists inside yourselves.
Call me not Osama, call me prejudice, call me hate, call me fanatic, fundamentalist.
I was not born yesterday, I was birthed when man was born! You could not eliminate me when you killed your Hitler.
Nor kill me when you defeated the slant eyed Jap.
You threw atomic bomb to end a bloody war and allowed a hundred me's be born anew.
You rained those missiles down on Afghan soil and sent your men into Saddam's Iraq, but with every death a hundred more of me sprang to life.
I live in the minds of man! Two planes I used that brought yon towers down.
But with no planes, or knives you my brethren continue what I so meticulously planned.
You Sri Lankans who look at your poor beaten Tamils with vengeance, you are bigger Osama's than even me.
Yet no one dares bomb or smoke you out, because you live not fugitives but free in the castles of your minds! And you in nearby Indian state, who rant and rave in Parliament today about ancient mosque you cruelly brought down; how easy to say you bear no remorse for evil done; tearing apart harmonious land with devilish, depraved, diabolic design.
Aha! I live on in the minds of men.
No bomb can kill me.
No missile smoke me out! Kill your Osama's first before you look for this bearded one.
In the mountain caves you search: But it is not there I hide.
I live in the minds of men.
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