If Only Bin Laden Had Been Killed 13 Years Ago

The following made sense to me and so I will share it with you.  This is the last I will post on this subject.  The maniac deserves no more bandwidth or ink. 

The killing of bin Laden at the hands of U.S. forces is likely to be a cathartic moment for the world -- almost as if a war has come to an end -- but his termination comes much too late.
And the war is not truly over until the real mastermind of the al Qaeda operation -- Ayman al-Zawahiri -- is brought to justice.
Bin Laden -- a figurehead of the ugly face of extremism and an example of how any faith can be perverted to serve political (not religious) goals -- should have been taken out when the CIA became aware of his role in the August 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
He should have been taken out after the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen's coast.
He should have been taken out on September 12, or 13, or 14, 2001.
Instead, bin Laden evaded capture and lived on as a leader of a terrorist organization and embodiment of what the "War on Terror" was all about.
Bin Laden and his murderous hive of followers became the bogeymen that justified the invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban was tossed out of Kabul and U.S. forces chased al Qaeda throughout the world, but bin Laden lived on and became the haunting example of what could happen unless the U.S. adopted the strategy of preemptive war.
Regrettably, U.S. foreign policy came to be branded by bin Laden.

Finish reading it HERE.

And so it goes.
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