Right after finishing yesterday's blog post, I went to check my email, and was greeted by a Yahoo! news headline relating that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. It took me a moment to understand... At first I thought I was mis-reading the name or was confusing some low level terrorist leader with Bin Laden's name. But it sunk in of course, and it was the most welcome news. It brought some closure to that day I remember back in 2001, when I heard a coworker proclaim that airplanes were attacking the World Trade Center.
I'm glad that President Obama was willing to make the call, willing to send a team of Americans into Pakistan to finish the manhunt that was started almost ten years ago. I'm glad that we didn't leave Afghanistan and Pakistan before the job was complete, in spite of how many people had been clamoring for our exit for so long, somehow forgetting that 9/11 had ever happened. Bin Laden's execution is a job well done by all involved.
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