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Time Magazine should have picked Bin Laden
I'm sorry, but I have to chide you for cowardice for not picking Bin Laden as the
person of the year.
You know full well that your decision was based on your fear of what the public would
think if you chose him.
I also say shame on you for not having enough confidence in the American people that
they can handle the fact that your selection should reflect that person who has most
effected the world for good OR EVIL.
Perhaps in some pockets of New York where your headquarters are, Giuliani came in a
close second behind Bin Laden as far as having impacted people this past year. But as
far as the world is concerned, Bin Laden is a 10, while Giuliani is a 1. Giuliani shows
up on the radar screen of global impact for the year, but barely. Bush [a 7] would have
been a better choice, considering your cowardice to name Bin Laden.
The argument you supplied leaves you greatly lacking as to why you ever chose Hitler or
other evil men of our day. "And though we spent hours debating the pros and cons of
naming Osama bin Laden, it ultimately became easy to dismiss him. He is not a larger
than life figure with broad historical sweep; as the tapes showed, he is smaller than
life, a garden-variety terrorist whose evil plan succeeded beyond his highest hopes and
who is now either dead or running for his life."
Was Hitler "larger than life?"
Do you think Hitler would look any different on a home video?
No one who the world puts on a pedestal for good or evil is really all that different
from you and I when they are sitting among friends in their living room.
There is a prophecy in Isaiah that even Satan himself will look pretty benign when
stripped of his famous veneer: "Is this the man that rule nations and made the
world to tremble?"
I bet you would not even recognize Adolph Hitler if he were standing at a urinal next to
you, without his mustache, without the spotlight, without the surrounding comrades,
without the uniform. He would look like any other bloke.
No, you wimped out on naming bin Laden as the one who most impacted the world in this
last year. Big time.
Sterling D. Allan
www.sterlingdallan.com
666 S. 60 E.
Ephraim, UT 84627
435-283-6340
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