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Osama Bin Laden is dead - It’s time to end our wars
Osama Bin Laden is dead. US forces shot and killed the leader of Al-Qaeda yesterday in a highly secure compound just 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The boy of Bin Laden was secured and identified him using a sample of his brain tissue – before being buried at sea in accordance with Muslim traditions. President Obama addressed the nation last night to say, “We can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al-Qaeda’s terror: justice has been done” So what happens now?
Setting aside the morale boosting effects that the death of Bin Laden will have on US forces and the consoling effects that the death will have on people who lost loved ones – and the political effects for President Obama – does taking out Bin Laden really change anything in our “War on Terror”? Does it at least validate our efforts in the last decade? Our nation is vastly different than we were ten years ago when we set out to get Bin Laden – and I think you’d be hard-pressed to find one person who would argue it has been change for the better. And as a result, there are more men, women, and children that want to kill America than before we started. And despite the trillions spent in our War on Terror and the news we been made – we can’t honestly claim we are any safer today.
Yeah, we got Bin Laden – a criminal is dead – but looking at the list of problems our country is STILL facing at this hour because we decided to react to a crime with a war – he was the least of our worries. It’s time to end our wars.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... Eyewitness account-raid on Bin Laden compound (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: Eyewitness account-raid on Bin Laden compound With Mosharraf Zaidi, Writer in Pakistan. 
Crime of the century Bin Laden Dead, President Obama Says.
How'd we get here With Russ Baker, investigative journalist - WhoWhatWhy.com.
Bin Laden is dead...international: war on terror over? With Jordan Tama, Fellow-Truman National Security Project / Professor-American University’s School of International Service.
Bin Laden's death...no more undeclared wars? With Tom Hayden, Activist/Author/former CA State Senator.
Bin Laden's death...political implications With: - Robert Parry, Investigative Journalist/Editor Consortium News - Jamie Weinstein - Deputy Editor, DailyCaller.com
Bin Laden is dead... With Alejandro Beutel, Government & Policy Analyst with the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
Daily Take: Never again should we have a war without declaring a war
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Hour One: The crime of the century!
Bin Laden's dead...can our troops finally come home? John Amato, Founder/Editor - Crooks and Liars.
Hour Two: No more undeclared wars...? Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service News Agency, investigative journalist and historian specializing in U.S. national security policy.
Death of bin Laden with Haris Tarin, director of the Washington office, Muslim Public Affairs Council.
Hour Three: Bin Laden is dead with Professor Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies.
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