BIN LADEN IS SURELY DEAD

I’ve believed this for a long time now, but the latest video from al Qaeda’s “Number Two,” Ayman al-Zawahri, gives more credence to the belief. We haven’t had a real, live, authentically-dated video that authenticates bin Laden’s existence for well over a year. Why not? Wouldn’t it be of extreme importance to his followers that they be reassured that he is still alive? If they can put together a video of al-Zawahri, why not one with OBL? This isn’t completely salient to the war on terror which is far broader than one man. But I’m working under the assumption that what remains of the mass murderer is under a rock somewhere on the Pakistani border. I don’t want to ruin Maureen Dowd’s day but that’s by far the most plausible explanation for his long, inexplicable silence and absence.