Is this what closure feels like? - Joan Walsh - Salon.com: Eight years to the day after President Bush stood before a banner announcing "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, prematurely declaring the end of combat operations there, President Obama announced Sunday night that an operation he authorized had killed al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The spoiled son of privilege, who thought it his birthright to dispatch thousands of innocents to their death for the crime of not sharing his twisted vision of Islam, is dead.
The contrast between the general idiocy of 24/7 American politics, and what's really at stake in all of Obama's decisions, had never been so stark.