Exhilaration - and Hope for a New Way

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THE CELEBRATIONS that erupted outside the White House and at ground zero after President Barack Obama's announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed have been criticized as unseemly. As someone who shared in the feeling of exhilaration, I would like to believe the celebrations were about much more than the death of a mass murderer.

They were, perhaps a little prematurely but hopefully not woefully so, this generation's version of the Times Square kiss photographed on V-J Day, the end of World War II.

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Exhilaration - and Hope for a New Way

One of the worst strategic mistakes made at the outset of this conflict was the narrative framework set up by the Bush administration. This was a War on Terror, a war on a tactic of war itself. S...

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