Can it be a mere coincidence that the world heard that Superman would renounce his U.S. citizenship just days before Al Obama's sinister and lugubrious leader was killed in his Pakistani compound? Or are the two events secretly related?

The news of U.S. commandos killing Osama bin Laden came just five days after word arrived that the Man of Steel, in Action Comics #900, was flying to the United Nations to declare his independence from America.

Such a drastic decision came in response to the U.S. national security advisor reproaching him for going to Tehran to show solidarity with Iran's Green Revolution and its protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cronies. Although the superhero had done nothing more than silently, and non-violently, support the rebels, the Iranian government took Superman's presence as an act of war instigated by the United States, the Great Satan.

Superman decided that in an increasingly global world, it was counterproductive for him to be branded as an instrument of U.S. policy. He came from another planet, after all, which gave him a “larger picture.”

It is difficult to exaggerate the indignation that this risky act of renunciation of citizenship caused among the U.S. public, which saw it as a slap in the face.

Petitions have started to circulate threatening a boycott of Time Warner (the parent company of DC Comics) if there is no retraction of such a dire resolution and a number of conservative pundits claim that this insult attested to America's decline. The icon of Americanism, the ideal self-made man, the sun of faraway strangers with unpronounceable names, who assimilates and blends in, the most representative figure of U.S. goodness and might was turning his back on the land of the free and the home of the brave.

President Obama may not follow the adventures of Superman assiduously, but someone in his entourage must have alerted him to the significance of such an iconic figure deserting the United States and going cosmopolitan. At any rate, Obama's counselor must have explained that Superman's desertion should be treated as an immense cultural and ideological crisis that could conceivably cost the president his reelection, given that Republicans were presumably spreading rumors about how Obama “lost” Superman (like Vietnam or Cuba were “lost” ).

Obama's response was a sheer act of political genius. By killing Osama bin Laden, he proved that the United States did not need a muscular man who can fly and destroy walls with the flick of a wrist. For that, the U.S. has helicopters and Navy SEALs and intelligence on the ground and in the air and weapons made of—yes—steel. A dashing way of restoring national confidence when it was wilting.

Now is when a really heroic task can be accomplished. President George W. Bush originally invaded Afghanistan because the Taliban refused to give up Bin Laden. So has the moment not come to withdraw all American forces from that country?

I am sure that Superman, along with the United Nations, would be delighted to proffer help in bringing the troops home. It would be wonderful to read of these exploits in the next issues dedicated to the Man of Steel, a story of how Obama and Superman collaborated to create at least one small oasis of peace in a world that, alas, seems to be lacking truth and justice.

That would be a real homage to the many victims of the murderous Bin Laden.

The Man of Steel declared his independence from America and afterwards news came that bin Laden was killed by the U.S.

According to the author, America is regarded as evil as it launched the war.

President Obama’s response to the Man of Steel’s renouncement of his U.S. citizenship was late and un-ideal.

It turned out that Obama and the Man of Steel collaborated in killing bin Laden