Bin Laden

Hard to watch this go by and not comment.  The reactions here seem to range from celebration, to reproach for celebrating the death of a man, to fear of reprisal.

Me, I think a guy who is responsible for and exults in the slaughter by stealth of 3000 innocent men, women, and children has a special place in the annals of evil.  He deserved much worse than he got.

As to the politics, I note my previously-blogged position - that this creates a fine time to declare victory in Afghanistan, assemble and issue green cards to the people who helped us, and bring them and our people home.  That point of view is not heard much, and when it is, it's regarded as craven.

I guess it was also craven when Reagan pulled us out of Lebanon after hundreds of Marines were killed in their barracks in 1983.  But I bet it saved a lot of American lives, and avoided taking sides in a fight where there wasn't a good side to take.