5 Years Ago The U.S. Killed Osama bin Laden. Did It Matter?

[Purveyor]

Washington (CNN)Five years after U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden at his Pakistani compound, more groups of violent Islamic extremists threaten global security than at any time in history.

Terrorist attacks stretching from Paris and Brussels to Istanbul and the skies over the Sinai Peninsula speak to the virulent reach of ISIS, while intelligence officials and analysts say al Qaeda affiliates are poised for a resurgence in the coming year and may pose the greater long-term danger.

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Bin Laden's death in 2011, nearly a decade after his al Qaeda organization launched the attacks of September 11, 2001, sent an unmistakable message that the U.S. will wreak vengeance on those who attack it, no matter how long it takes or how far it has to go.
President Obama on the order to kill Osama bin Laden

Obama told Bergen that when the SEALs broached the final door bin Laden hid behind, "hopefully at that moment, he understood that the American people hadn't forgotten the some 3,000 people who he had killed."

Obama's administration has pointed to the raid as evidence that despite his wariness of foreign engagement, the President isn't loathe to act forcefully in American interests and has dealt a drastic blow to al Qaeda and global terror.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/politics/terrorism-bin-laden-raid-2016-isis/

[Trust Buster]

1. Yes, Bin Laden engineered the death of 3,000 Americans and would have done it again.

The dove's really shouldn't go there IMO.

[ohheckyeah]

2. I sleep easier knowing the

Murdering piece of filth is dead.

But I never have to worry about President Obama going off half-cocked and dropping a nuke on a country. That's what scares me about Trump. He likes to think he's a badass.

[guillaumeb]

3. US posturing and posing and violence solved nothing.

As to the spread of violence, "The Law of unintended Consequences" in action.

[lunatica]

4. It has made a huge difference

Mostly not to our liking with the rise of ISIS, and things are much worse now. Maybe not killing Bin Laden wouldn't have made a difference either.

but killing put everyone on notice that sooner or later the US will get you.

[Octafish]

5. Not a bit. We've always been at war with Eastasia. Eurasia.

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''War is a Racket.'' -- Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC

[MichiganVote]

6. Made a difference to him. I can live with that.