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May 03, 2011 19:48

I'm reacting very slowly to the death of Bin Laden. I'm glad he's gone, but let's face it, that movement had expanded way beyond him.

I've been reading and listening to a lot of stuff about World War II of late. There's an excellent movie (if one of the most depressing you'll ever watch) about the last hours of Hitler and his inner circle, called 'Downfall'. And the contrast is ever more painful and evident, in that we won a clear and decisive victory against that horrible genocidal movement. We captured or killed the ringleader and his main henchmen, and the world was with us in that fight. And then it was done. Yes, there were immense repercussions but that particular fight was won definitively. This one is going to keep going - in a lot of ways, bin Laden had ceased to be relevant. There's no defined front line. It's like fighting mist.
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