[Alberta's Child]

I can sympathize with your sentiment, Huck, but I suggested yesterday that one of the underlying factors here is that it's been nearly ten freaking years since 9/11 -- and Osama bin Laden's demise was almost anti-climactic to a lot of people. And after all the nonsense we heard from people in Washington about how they'd move heaven and earth to track him down even if they had to dig through every mountain in Afghanistan, it turns out he's been living comfortably in a compound in Pakistan for the last six years.

Your comparisons to World War II are interesting, but maybe not truly valid. I suspect the V-E and V-J Day celebrations in this country would have been pretty muted if we learned that Adolph Hitler had been killed in a compound outside London -- in 1951.

The simple truth is that Osama bin Laden has been off the radar screen of most people -- including most people in government and even the U.S. military -- for years.

[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.