robkelk Wrote:Hate to put a damper on things, but this needs to be mentioned... They didn't get his deputy.Eh, to be honest, al-Q's been fairly irrelevant for years now. Not much a small group can actually do when they're hiding in the mountains in Pakistan. I suppose some of that pressure will be off now that the US got the top guy, but it remains to be seen if they even possess enough remaining assets to be a factor in Afghanistan, let alone further afield.
Control of al-Queda has now been removed from the public-relations expert and placed in the hands of the combat strategist.
Consider that while you're celebrating.
As far as Bin Laden goes, in theory I'd have preferred it if he'd been taken alive and tried in a proper court, but LOL at the concept of rule of law applying to Barack Obama's America. Despite Bin Laden's general irrelevance, he had value as a symbol and would certainly have plotted to kill more people had he remained alive to do so, so it's good he's gone.