Dreams of Arcadia

Osama Bin Laden is dead.

After countless years, both before and after 9/11. After two poorly conceived and executed wars still lacking the light of resolution. After the loss of 2,340 coalition soldiers, 8,739+ Afghan forces, and tens of thousands of civilians deaths, the world’s most wanted man has been killed by a U.S. operative in a mansion outside of Islamabad in Pakistan.  Should we feel any safer? Does this mean the terror that has gripped the nation for the last ten years will fade? Read the rest of this entry »