Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?

The other day I was given a free screening to the new Morgan Spurlock film “Where in The World Is Osama Bin Laden?”. It was a poor attempt to explain the current social climates of the middle east and other Islamic nations through humor. It’s not that the film wasn’t funny; it’s just that it hard to talk about this whole mess comically. Frankly the world is a scary place and the images that I was seeing on the screen startled me. In a Q&A session after the film, Spurlock said “the easiest way to deal with fear is to laugh at it”. The intentions of the film were unclear to me and I found the title quite deceiving. Spurlock seemed to used the search for Osama as a mean to guide him from location to location as he discussed the political and socio-economic standings of the country with it’s citizens. It seemed unanimous almost everyone involved in the world wishes it to be over. The film didn’t reveal anything unknown about the war to the audience, other than the citizens’ opinions. If both sides of the war want it to be over why can’t we end the war? It is because we don’t know who were fighting and that makes it impossible to negotiate a solution. The film just reinforced my fears that this war could continue infinitely. And there’s too much confusion to do anything right. We really just need to let the dust settle and wait to see if we can manage to put the pieces back together.