At least it didn’t take a full ten years.
Update: I’m not going to have much patience for anyone trying to credit this entirely to either President Obama or President Bush. This is not a victory for a single man or a political party, you motherfucking assholes: this is a victory for civilization.
Afterthought: I wonder if public support, such as it ever was, for the more intensive security practices at airports and courthouses, will begin to evaporate altogether after this. You and I know bin Laden’s now-documented assumption of room temperature doesn’t eliminate the danger, but the checkpoints and scanners and patdowns are 99% theater anyway and the improvement to safety isn’t anywhere near proportional to the extent to which it annoys people and makes them less likely to subject themselves to it.
A free country in which people are discouraged from attending public trials or the meetings of legislative bodies, isn’t a free country.
