Just when you begin to worry that maybe the United States cannot do anything right, this happens. And suddenly things seem just a little better — and the barometric pressure in American a little bit lighter. This is to say that the loud noise you here coming from the 50 states of the United States is one big collective sigh of relief. The man is gone.
Make no mistake about it. The end of the life of Osama bin Laden is the beginning of a number of new things and questions for the rest of us. Like 9/11 itself, it marks a clear chapter in our history.
For an increasingly embattled President Barack Obama, this spectacular development should provide a measure of considerable assurance (if not an outright guarantee) that whoever runs against him next year won't have the advantage of opposing an incumbent with a soft-on-terrorism image. A one-note Donald Trump like assault that our president is weak-on-evil just won't fly. That opportunity is now gone.