The American Prospect
by Matthew Yglesias
05/12/11
When the United States launched its post-September 11 military actions against Afghanistan, the George W. Bush administration issued to the Taliban a set of demands. The Taliban refused to comply, so we went to war. The conventional wisdom has been that the war isn t going well, but the death last week of Osama bin Laden is just the latest and most definitive sign that it s a war we have actually already won...
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=its_time_to_leave_afghanistan
The bin Laden dividend
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
05/12/11
Numerous people have argued that one potential benefit from the death of Osama bin Laden is that it will enable the U.S. Government to diminish its war commitments in that part of the world and finally arrest the steady erosion of civil liberties perpetrated in the name of the War on Terror (as though any of that is the government s goal). By contrast, I have argued from the start that the bin Laden killing is likely to change nothing of any significance ...
http://salon.com/a/sIjUfAA
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
Michael Moore, Michael Moore s Blog: 'We did exactly what bin Laden said he wanted us to do: Give up our freedoms (like the freedom to be assumed innocent until proven guilty), engage our military in Muslim countries so that we will be hated by Muslims and wipe ourselves out financially in doing so. Done, done and done, Osama. You had our number. You somehow knew we would eagerly give up our constitutional rights and become more like the authoritarian state you dreamed of. You knew we would exhaust our military and willingly go into more debt in eight years than we had accumulated in the previous 200 years combined.... If we really want to send bin Laden not just to his death, but also to his defeat, may I suggest that we reverse all of that right now.'
http://www.truth-out.org/some-final-thoughts-death-osama-bin-laden/1305297509
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=constitutional+rights
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Taliban
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=debt
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michael+Moore
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