So the world's most fearsome red herring, Osama bin Laden, is no more. I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but militant Islam doesn't live or die with OBL, and hasn't for a long time. I'm elated he's dead, but I'm not deluded enough to think this will have any effect on our endless War on Terror, much less a downscaling. I'm also not deluded enough to buy that OBL wasn't being sheltered and shuttled by very senior, high-ranking elements within Pakistan. But we'll see how it plays out.
An appropriately subdued speech by the Prez, with a minimum of chest-thumping. Of course, a dirty hippie like me can point out the irony of our America-hating, secretly Muslim president being the one to finally "get" OBL, but there's no reason to think that those who are hell-bent on othering Obama will be swayed by the wonderful news.
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