[af_vet_1981]

had been killed in a compound outside London -- in 1951.

It is incongruent to compare Great Britain as our WWII ally to Pakistan as our WOT ally. You might compare the Pakistanis to the Russians, but not the Brits.

[Alberta's Child]

Sure, that's right. But all such comparisons kind of go out the window when you're talking about a half-@ssed military campaign that has lasted more than twice as long as this nation's involvement in both World Wars combined.

I think people are rightly cynical about many of these matters -- for reasons that can be attributed to this current administration as well as the last one. It's hard for me to imagine why people would get all excited about the demise of Osama bin Laden nearly ten years after 9/11 . . . and almost seven years after the 9/11 Commission was officially closed . . . the same 9/11 Commission whose members included people who bore much of the responsibility for 9/11 (Jamie Gorelick, for example) . . . after "Islam is a religion of peace" and all that lame sh!t . . . after 3,000+ American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars were p!ssed away on a nation-building campaign in Iraq that resulted in the establishment of a "government" in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion . . . etc., etc.

Oh, did someone mention that Osama bin Laden was hunted down and killed like a rabid animal the other day? Well, that sure changes things . . . let me get my fireworks and my American flag out and celebrate!