Bin Laden, the Fringe Left and Torturous Right

Robert Shrum, The Week
Most Americans have reacted to the brave and brilliant operation that killed Osama bin Laden with pride and satisfaction. The predominant emotion — and this was a profoundly emotional moment — was not a sense of revenge for its own sake, but of renewed confidence in America's capacity, relief that we no longer seemed helpless or hopeless in the pursuit of the world's greatest mass murderer, and the simple belief, as Barack Obama expressed it, that "justice was done."There are a lot more important things to worry about in the world than the...

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