Bin Laden's Death Changes Little

Wall Street Journal ^ | May 9, 2011 | Max Boot

[ilgipper]

You've been here too long to be a DU plant, so I am going cover this. First search on Google pulled this information, highly pertinent to the discussion:

"America wants him brought to justice," he said. "That's what we want."

But Bush reminded reporters at the Pentagon that bin Laden is but one leader of a terrorist network.

"Our mission is not just Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda organization. Our mission is to battle terrorism and to join with freedom-loving people," the president said.

Bottom line. This is not a war on Bin Laden or Al Queda, it is a war to disrupt islamic terrorists. We've hunted and killed or captured thousands of Islamic nutjob terrorists in countries all over the world. Immediately after 9/11 we removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and put Bin Laden in the run into Pakistan and have been hunting him down ever since.

Why the hell do you think the first leads in the hunt that actually captured him were denoted as happening in 2004 and then 2007. Finding clues was a central part of our questioning of Al Queda leaders when we pulled them out of the battlefield. At various points, Bush de-emphasized the focus on this man alone, as did Obama shortly after he started getting his briefings in early 2009, because there was little solid evidence, and the idea of staking our success on finding one single man somewhere across multiple countries was a literal needle in a haystack search. That didn't make the effort any less, it was simply putting the situation into perspective when we didn't intend from the earlies days of this battle that the war was centered around finding and killing one man. This is not a Hitler situation. The threat is as high without OBL as it was before he was gone. He is one of many key leaders that we have knocked off or captured, and I am certain no one is as thrilled as GWB that we got the bastard, and using the strategies he put in place.