Tunisia, Egypt, now Libya.  Some see these events as an opening for Islamic extremists.  I see it as the end of the Bin Laden Decade.

Goodbye Bin Laden.  You no longer speak to the oppressed.  North African peoples took action on their own, and they found freedom without suicide bombings.

The Tunisians and Egyptians will live to see freedom.  Your acolytes, Osama, will not.

Farsighted people (if there are any) in the Obama administration might recognize this as an opportunity, not to increase, but to curtail our presence in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  The people of those states will (eventually) do what our State Department and our Defense Department cannot do for them.  If we are wise, we will get out of their way.

Osama Bin Laden will go into the history books as the modern world’s most notorious, most destructive and, in the end, most ineffective terrorist.  The accomplishments of the peoples of North Africa have shown how pathetic he is.