Five Years After Bin Laden's Death, What's Changed?

NBC ^ | 5/1/16 | TIM STELLOH

[Timpanagos1]

Shortly before midnight on May 1st, 2011, President Barack Obama stood at a lectern in the East Room of the White House and delivered a startling announcement: American forces had located — and killed — the most wanted terrorist on the planet, Osama bin Laden.

[Paladin2]

Trump is winning...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Osama has been dead for fifteen years. He’s under a billion tons of rock in Tora Bora.

[golux]

Well, a few thousand Christians were assassinated, for one thing. The intelligence portfolio of the Secretary of State was released to America's enemies. Oh! Also I learned I was transphobic and that my impoverished Ashkenazi roots make me Privileged.

[dp0622]

Being from NY, it made me feel good to know he died scared ####less.

as for lasting effect, it might have had one had we kept troops in Iraq.

[Timpanagos1]

“Being from NY, it made me feel good to know he died scared ####less.”

I remember that night when they announced the got him. It one of those moments I’ll never forget.

I just wished they could have made the bastard suffer for more than a few minutes.

[ALASKA]

It wasn’t after midnight, it was after noon.

[2CAVTrooper]

No body, no pics showing the frontal lobotomy = not dead IMO

[W.]

Yes, I remember. 0bama talked like HE pulled the trigger on Osama.

He couldn't do it. He doesn't have the guts.

All he can do is talk big. He hasn't the rocks for anything close to such action.

[dp0622]

tortured him for years and kept him alive with IVs if necessary.

[UCANSEE2]

But we killed his understudy.

[broken_clock]

Well, the announcement of, “we got him” sure bumped the release of Obamas’ birth certificate off of the front page.

[dfwgator]

Not a damned thing.

[Yaelle]

(Hand raised) Call on me! I know this one! My Afghani uber driver informed me that Al Qaeda think ISIS isn’t real Islam, just too much violence.

Oh yeah, we’re much better.

[Yaelle]

Obama was dressed for golf, sitting in a tiny folding chair in the back of the room. He was all but photoshopped in. That was weird.

[W.]

Seems like that was just where he belonged, no doubt!

[Paladin2]

Well, it’s more likely that your minimal skin pigmentation, DNA group intelligence, sexual nondevience DO mske you privileged to reject assualts of any kind based on the priors, with prejudice if necessary...

[Paladin2]

From news reports, being #2 stinks....

[Moonman62]

I think Obama’s done more to destroy America than what bin Laden did.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Obama is still President.