Osama bin nothing.
I don’t really have anything to add, Anthony Gregory already said everything that needs to be said. Osama’s head is little more than a trophy being exploited by an unpopular president desperate to prove his effectiveness. The ideas bin Laden stood for still exist, as does growing hostility towards American intervention, but these are irrelevant to Obama, an opportunist who never really stood for anything other then what he thinks a demoralized public wants to hear. If the American public can be swindled into thinking this makes any real difference, then Obama will be as Hawkish as Bush was and then some just to show how weak he isn’t, and the peaceniks who so readily took to the streets to protest Bush’s war won’t dare criticize their mulatto Messiah. After all, Bush was after oil. Obama is after…peace and stuff…
However, there’s always hope. Bush coasted on the fear of terrorism to keep his mediocre presidency going for a second term. But back then, al-Queda was more of a threat than it is now. The organization has been losing credibility in Muslim nations for years. If this had happened back in 2005, it would have been more than the empty moral victory it is now. With any luck, the American people will see past whatever tactics Obama uses to spin this.
