A calm and composed Barack Obama announced to an already rejoicing United States that Osama Bin Laden was shot dead during an operation outside Islamabad. The most important part of the announcement was the confirmation by the US President that “we have the body in custody”. There’s no chance that Osama will perform modern day a Granny Weatherwax routine and turn up with some video proclaiming “I ate’nt dead”. – we’ve got the body of evidence.
On the other hand, while killing a person is (relatively) easy, killing an idea isn’t half as simple. While the whole civilised world deserves its moment of heady jubilation at the thought of another crackhead espouser of evil thoughts and deeds hitting the dust, I cannot quite fathom how this could mean anything close to the end of terrorist activity. At most there is one less person to blame for the deeds, otherwise it is probably business as usual.
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Amen.