Barely a day after we heard the happy news that Osama bin Laden took an American bullet to the head, President Barack Obama hosted both parties’ leadership at an event called “Together as an American Family: A Bipartisan Congressional Dinner at the White House.”
“Last night,” the president said, “we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.
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A Texas school teacher is out of a job after being accused of mocking an American-born Muslim student in his ninth-grade algebra class. He asked the girl if she was grieving because her “uncle” Osama bin Laden was dead. The suburban Houston school district announced that the teacher would not be coming back to work.
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The killing of Osama bin Laden says a lot about the United States at war. It occurred almost a decade after 9/11, contradicting the notion that a democracy can’t fight a long war. It demonstrates that our presence in Afghanistan, without which the raid would have been impossible, is our main point of leverage on Pakistan.
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Thursday’s story on the possibility of “converting one of Highway 101’s four lanes to a carpool lane in San Mateo County” reported an idea supported by the Sierra Club — though we hope it would be one lane in each direction.SamTrans’ KX express bus travels on 101 from Hillsdale Boulevard to the airport and into San Francisco. Providing a carpool lane would make it far more attractive to commuters and airport travelers, as would SamTrans’ other express buses using the freeway.
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Just as quick as it came, Obama’s Osama bounce as fading fast. First, last Friday, Gallup found that Obama 6-point bounce to 52% had already fallen back to 51%. That number held steady today.
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The White House wasn't exactly seeking forgiveness Monday from Pakistan officials, who blasted the United States for not tipping them off to the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound.
"We completely understand Pakistani concerns," spokesman Jay Carney said during Monday's press briefing. "We make no apologies for the fact that Osama bin Laden needed to be found and brought to justice.”
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By:
Arthur I. Cyr
05/09/11 4:00 AM
U.S. special operations forces killed Osama bin Laden, but the struggle against international terrorism is far from over, and in the future bin Laden could become a highly emotional symbol of martyrdom, a catalyst to turn the populist turmoil sweeping the Middle East in dangerous fundamentalist directions.
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Yes, President Obama showed guts in deciding to send in the SEALs instead of a B-2 or Predator to get bin Laden, but the trail that led to the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan started with the determination of the guy in the cowboy hat.
A bit HT to NRO's Jim Geraghty, who received the motivational poster from a reader. Be sure and read Jim's accompanying commentary.
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