The Senate Indian Affairs committee will hold a hearing Thursday on racist Native American stereotypes, a hearing that will now also address the Osama bin Laden mission and the code-name Geronimo.
While the hearing was scheduled before the mission, a committee aide today said the linking of the name Geronimo with the world’s most wanted man is “inappropriate” and can have a “devastating” impact on kids.
“The hearing was scheduled well before the Osama bin Laden operation became news, but the concerns over the linking of the name of Geronimo, one of the greatest Native American heroes, with the most hated enemies of the United States is an example of the kinds of issues we intended to address at Thursday's hearing,” Loretta Tuell, the committee's chief counsel, said in a statement.
American Power: Code-Name Geronimo: "Not the brightest idea for a code name. Good thing they didn't take out Osama with a Tomahawk missile."
What could have been a better code name? Let's see:
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| Not Osama bin Laden. Not even close. |
Yamamoto? Nope, Japan is our friend now. (And American Indians are, well, Americans.)
John Brown? Not appropriate because John Brown's body lies a moulderin' in the grave. Osama ain't got no grave and chum doesn't really "moulder."
They could have code named Osama something like Eichmann or Himmler, which at least have the virtue of being names of men who hated Jews as much as OBL did. But why give him an actual name at all? They could just as well have coded him as Target Alpha One or Fizziwig. But even I, who am not very inclined toward political correctness, think that Geronimo wasn't too smart (although it will of course be blown far out of proportion to its actual demerits). After all, the real Geronimo was a standup guy compared to OBL. Calling him Geronimo is far too complimentary for him.
Yeah, "Dirtbag One" would have done the trick nicely.
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