Bin Laden Dead or Alive?

Reports are dancing around that he may be. Or that he may have died a month ago. Or that he's close to death now. So here I go out on a limb to say I honestly don't care.

The man is nothing but evil, and I wouldn't mind in the least seeing him dead as a doornail.

But will it matter for anything other than making us feel good? Will his death stop al-Qaida or other terrorists from moving ahead on any plans they've got? Or from drafting new plans against us and other? No. Will it do anything to halt terrorism? No.

Would it have, if we had continued to go after him in Afghanistan instead of wandering off into Iraq? I don't know. But I know that we had a chance to seriously disrupt al-Qaida and let it go. When capturing Saddam Hussein became more important to U.S. interests than capturing Bin Laden, we admited that our government really doesn't care about Bin Laden. That whatever might happen with him was not as important as what could happen with Hussein.

And that was not only stupid beyond all common belief, it was irresponsible and put the world, and this country at greater risk than we were at on 9/12/01.