Maybe Osama's no longer a real danger, although I'm very skeptical. That's entirely no excuse to abandon the fervent prosecution of the man who committed the crime of the century.
I'm sure most of you remember when Dick Cheney said this:
it's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on November 2nd, we make the right choice. Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at war.
Bin Laden is assumed by a sweeping consensus to be guilty of leading a conspiracy of the murder 2985 American citzens, mostly civilians. During the period prior to 9/11/01, America was not at war. In an immediate sense, the attack was unprovoked. In a way in which one might see the attack as provoked, the attack was uncivilized, inapporpriate, unwarranted, inefficient, psychopathic, and illegal.
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