Sunday, May 1, 2011, Osama Bin Laden died at the hands of a small group of American Navy SEALS.
Well Done!
It is not the end of the Global War on Islamo-fascistic Terrorists, nor even the end of the beginning, but it is a milestone.
To put it in perspective the World War II generation. This is not the equivalent of the death of Adolf Hitler, but more akin to the death of Isoroku Yamamoto in April 1943. The architect of the attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor and much of the very successful Japanese conquest of the Pacific was dead, was killed by a small group of Army Air Force aviators who flew hundreds of miles on a scrap of intelligence from the U.S. Navy.
It did not end the war in the Pacific, which went on bloodily for nearly another 2 1/2 years, but it was a major blow to the Japanese and a major victory and morale boost for the Americans.
Such is it today.
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