is selective about their disdain for war and violence. On their own website, they sing the praises of the violence in Libya and Syria, yet constantly act like twits towards our own men and women fighting.

And you are correct Streiff, they will mourn OBL’s passing. He is their hero since he is fighting the evil American army. It would be nice to see the day come where some politician or police officer has the courage to arrest each and every one of the code pink members and charge them with treason, a charge of which all of their members have earned.

I will go so far as to make the following statement:
For the first time as an American I approve of an Obama administration accomplishment and, possibly, any involement the president may had taken in the military strike that eliminated the presence of bin Laden.

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Probably the best, most balanced piece I have read out of scores.

This is also an especially salient point;

don’t share the views of either Erick or Ben Domenech that Obama has actually adopted the national security policies of President Bush rather than having been forced through a lack of moral courage into an unwilling embrace.

I have to profess. Given Mr. Obama’s action over the past two years I don’t understand how many people have come to this conclusion.

learning the wrong long-term lesson from this, but short-term I’ll bet he ends up with some leverage on Kadafi, from whom we should be getting a call shortly. Whether or noe Obama has the guts and brains to use that leverage wisely is another matter.

if you said that the GOP steadfastly condemned Clinton when he tried to take action. And then you would be more correct in saying that we arrived at this moment because Bush dismantled every operation Clinton had in place and ignored every warning given to him by CIA officials.

Both parties are going to use the “threat of terror” to carry out their own agenda, whether it’s virtual rape by airport security screeners; unwarranted aggressive police power; databases monitoring and tracking every citizen’s every move; massive expansion of bureaucracies; or whatever else has happened in the past 10 years.

To the contrary, it’s popular and can win lots of votes; and that’s precisely why Obama won’t abandon it.

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Just think if this had turned into Desert One. He would have been finished as a president. And the gain he gets from this will likely be negligible by the time the election rolls around anyways. This was a fairly courageous and risky decision from a man not known for either of those attributes.

Is anyone else wondering why Obama shuffled Panetta and Petreaus around right in the middle of this operation?

Note that Obama gave Panetta credit for this successful operation in his remarks last night (noting that Obama ordered Panetta to make it his number one priority). Rather….he took joint credit with Panetta.

So why the moves coinciding with this major operation?

Surely they’ll let the poor man catch his breath for a couple of days…

Since 9/11, there have been BIG Al Queda strikes in several nations (Indonesia, Spain, UK, Saudia Arabia). But things have been somewhat quiet since Obama took office. Why? Because the islamofacists truly believed that Obama was THEIR candidate working for THEIR interests. And Obama “delivered” by being anti-Israel, pro-Islamic-dictatorships, pro-Muslim-Brotherhood (etc). (as this Red State article explains in better detail!)

But with bin Ladin’s death, might they be “motivated” again. Is Obama prepared for that? NOT saying that we shouldn’t have taken out bin Ladin.

If Al Queda is SMART–they’ll realize that this is merely a symbolic victory… and they’ll continue lying low and letting Obama continue to bring economic destruction to America, while slowly continuing to support the Muslim Brotherhood (etc.) and continuing to slap Israel around. Soon, Egypt and Libya will be full-fledged Islamic dictatorships, due in part to Obama. (they weren’t much better before, but this will definately be worse in the long run for the US strategic interests!–like large chess pieces won by Al Queda!)

But, instead, passions may get the better of the islamofacists. And we could see some terror cells go “active” and some terror plots engage. The real test of Obama is… now that they are “motivated”, as they were under Bush, can Obama prevent large terrorist attacks on US soil? (as Bush did) Is Obama the adult in the room? Or the pretender? We are about to find out!

I don’t have a crystal ball, but I think this chances of another 9/11 strike (or worse!), in the next 12 months, just got considerably higher! EXTREMELY HIGH!

PS – even as I say this, I’d prefer no terrorist attacks, or stopped terrorist attacks, even if Obama gets credit. I’ll never “root” for the terrorists. Never. (some on the Left weren’t so civilized under Bush–some of them were openly rooting for our defeat, just in the hopes of scoring some political points! That is shameful!)

   Giving credit where credit is due, Obama obviously doesn’t want to leave the White House outliving someone like Osama Bin Laden, or leaving the command structure of Al Qaeda intact enough to order action while he is still in office.  It wouldn’t just be political suicide on his part, but it could also permanently damage the image of “liberal” progressives (read: the Left) for decades after that.*

   I won’t celebrate until I see the Islamists effectively eliminated in all nations, and their extremist cause diminished.  If the Christians can get rid of the urge for violence which marred the Crusades, the Musmlims can stop their jihad from defining their belief system.  Until then, I won’t consider this war ended.

*Notwithstanding.  I always considered the Left damaged by their own policies ever since the Carter administration.  It was under Jimmy Carter that Iran fell to the Ayatollah, and the first terror-sponsoring state took shape.  Prior to that, Islamic terror was still very much unofficial activity by renegades who might have had support by an official or three, but not publicly.  The Left in Congress more or less held the water for anti-American activity through the Reagan and Bush #1 administrations, but it was actually Bill Clinton who planted the seeds for what became September 11th, 2001 by handcuffing all enforcement activity that would’ve derailed that attack.

Muslims, bot “musmlims.”

Errrrr….

and Chief Operating Officer. That was an excellent diary Streiff. I agree with much of it, but hope we continue the WOT. I think Pannetta has done a better job than we would have expected, and I doubt Petraues plans on bailing on the fight.

Of course Obama does not get a foreign policy pass here, he has still been a very poor leader. His foreign policy as a whole has been sloppy, inconsistent, and at times cowardly. He has damaged alliances and sowed distrust; not exactly textbook super power FP. Of course his goal is to end our super power status.

Obama might do something right from time to time, but the left did not give him the presidency to do this. They want him to enrich them, while tearing down all that conservatives love about this nation. He will be getting back to that work soon enough, and it is there, where we must defeat him.

Will Obama get a popularity “bump” from this episode? Almost certainly. Will it last? Almost certainly not.

Obama is a bad President. Increasing numbers of people know it. And notwithstanding the victory in Abbottabad, all the negative qualities that have come to stamp his administration were in play.

His ego demanded that he take the credit for himself; a gracious leader would have always used the word “we” and acknowledged readily that the assassination was the product of 9 years work that began in the Bush administration.

His remoteness demanded that he announce it with a formal little speech rather than a press conference.

His arrogance demanded that he turn the victory announcement into a lecture on how we are not really at war with Is-LAM. He should have been able to talk this one in his sleep; instead we got another pedestrian peroration that put my cup of coffee to sleep.

At the end of the day, Obama is Obama and more and more American people simply do not like him in the WH. A single victory, even one that is as important (at least symbolically) as this one, will not change that over any period of time for the simple reason that Obama will continue being Obama. He can’t help himself. And all the negatives will again rise to the surface.

I am actually very happy he is dead but I have no closure only satisfaction but a sense of emptiness as well. the emptiness comes from the fact that i wasn’t allowed to see his body. I feel a sense of discuss at the fact that he was taken and given a Islamic burial. Our people that lost their lives at his hand were denied that right since most of them were not found in big enough pieces.

I seriously doubt that Obama had much to do with his killing and everything to do with disposing of the body since he is a good little Muslim himself. I think Obama just happened to be in the right place at the right time and desperately needed a boost in the polls.

I would not trust any pictures that may come to light now of the body since he has had plenty of time to fake them. This President has done nothing but lie from day one so why should I believe anything he has to say or do now? Even in this story the parts that we heard him say he lied. he din’t assemble any teams. The Seal team was formed many years ago and was still on the original mission they were charged with. I will give benefit of the doubt that he gave the final order but even that I give begrudgingly.

Like I said before I think Obama fell into this and if he had been thinking he would have waited until at least next June to take Osama out. If he knew where OBL was and that he had been there for many years and if Obama had just kept doing what he had been doing with the war, Obama could have taken him out in June or later next year. With that he would have been a shoe in to be re-elected. He would have gotten the boost in the polls that he needed and would have been ale to ride it out. Now that boost will quickly fade as we continue to pay $4.00 or more a gallon for gas and rising prices on everything. Once again Obama proves how dumb he really is.

1. Does any rational person believe that Osama could live in a fortified, $ million compound less than a half mile from an important military base for a reportedly six years without the Pakistani Government not knowing it?

2. If the Pakistani Government knew it, can anyone believe we didn’t know it?

3. If we knew it, why wasn’t Osama killed before now?

Easy, he was worth more alive than dead.

1. Monitoring his communications was an ongoing trove of intel.

2. Alive, he was not a Muslim Martyr.

3. Killing him would establish a benchmark for winding down the war on terror.

The Pakistanis were fully complicit in his death. I mean really, you have a firefight 800 yards from a military base and everyone wakes up and says,’It’s only a car backfiring”? I assume some big bucks are changing hands and that drone strikes in Pakistan will suddenly cease.

Why wasn’t Osama captured and interrogated, after all it worked with Saddam?

1. Having monitored his communications for years, he didn’t know anything we didn’t already know.

2. Keeping him alive would not be the closure benchmark for ending the war on terror.

So, the only reason Osama was killed now is that to Obama he became worth more dead than alive.

1. Obama cares little about getting continuing intel to fight the war on terror in that he has no interest in pursuing it.

2. It scores political points. Note all the “I’s” and “me’s” in his comments and speeches. Would Obama put his interests ahead of the good of our Country? Well, so far.

3. It gives Obama the benchmark he needs to shutdown Afghanistan to shore up his leftwing base.

4. It may well have been Osama’s physical condition was deteriorating and a “dead of natural causes” Osama wouldn’t be worth much politically.

In short, bring home Petraeus, kill Osama, declare victory and exit Afghanistan, stage Left.

When viewed as a campaign event, it makes perfect sense.

of a sudden Osama is called Usama by the media. Could it be that too many people confused the only consonant differentiating the President of the United States from the most vicious terrorist of the 21st century?

Top 10 reasons why I’m glad Bin Laden’s dead
1. We won’t be embroiled in months of arguing over which country will get custody of him.
2. We won’t have years and years of arguing over whether he gets a military tribunal or a civilian trial.
3. We won’t have an attorney general decide to try him in a civilian court in NYC.
4. We won’t have years and years of appeals and procedural wrangling.
5. We won’t have a brain dead jury with a political grievance turning him loose because of “lack of evidence”.
6. We won’t have to provide three hots, a cot, gym equipment, a tennis court and pedicures for him.
7. We won’t have to worry about him escaping.
8. We won’t have to deliver a university commencement address via satellite.
9. No loyal U.S. serviceman or prison guard is ever going to be hit in the face with a Zip-loc bag full of his excrement.
10. We won’t hear him petition for a humanitarian release claiming he’s within days of dying from prostate cancer only to have him experience a “miraculous cure” once he’s free.