How the Death of Osama bin Laden Sent the GOP Chasing Its Tail

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Politicizing 9/11 is terrible. But using it as a premise to invade the wrong country is cool.

Hi. I’m one of those death penalty hating, rule-of-law loving American progressives who cheered the death of Osama bin Laden a year ago today. Without a trial, the personification of Al Qaeda was summarily killed and dumped into the Indian Ocean. And I, like most Americans, was pleased.

As time went on, I reconsidered the mission in the context of what I thought were my values. I wasn’t—I think—glad that a man was dead or that justice was handed out summarily. I was cheered because suddenly we could move forward.

After a decade of the tragedy of 9/11 being morphed into color-coded terror alerts, scary mushroom cloud analogies and unilateral aggression, we finally did something right.

Credit the Navy SEALS, the CIA. And, most of all, credit the President who followed through on a controversial promise he made during the campaign to go into to Pakistan regardless of the costs to get bin Laden, given the chance.

Read more: http://eclectablog.com/2012/05/how-the-death-of-osama-bin-laden-sent-the-gop-chasing-its-tail.html#.T5_0PPJCib4.reddit

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1. KnR.

O is one of the few people left in DC with a spine, and we're supposed to give that up and vote for another filthy-rich Republican long-range mouth-fighter?