Saturday, December 04, 2004

This government-run enterprise has failed. Bring on the free market.

Musharraf: Bin Laden's Location Is Unknown – “Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that the search for Osama bin Laden has gone completely cold, with no recent intelligence indicating where he and his top lieutenants are hiding.”

I’m going to repeat something I’ve said: let’s set up a “Find Osama” contest styled after the X-Prize. That’s $50 million to the first person or team who finds the terrorist mastermind. We’ll get Mark Burnett to follow the teams into the mountains and the whole thing could pay for itself.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What could $50,000,000 mean to a Waziristan shepherd? Offer something they can understand, like Jeep Cherokees, or Goretex foul weather gear, things like that.

Joe Clifford Faust said...

I have a better idea - let's save the $50 million and make it into a reality show. People will come out of the woodwork to do it for free if it means a shot on TV...

Anonymous said...

It would be good entertainment, but if the US special forces can't find OBL, with the best resources in the world behind them and a budget of considerably more than 50 million dollars, then I doubt anyone (including a reality TV show) can.