{"id":636,"date":"2011-02-23T20:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=636"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:24","slug":"goodbye-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/02\/goodbye-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-642\" style=\"margin-top: 12px;\" title=\"binladen\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/binladen2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"binladen\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Tunisia, Egypt, now Libya.\u00a0 Some see these events as an opening for Islamic extremists.\u00a0 I see it as the end of the Bin Laden Decade.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye Bin Laden.\u00a0 You no longer speak to the oppressed.\u00a0 North African peoples took action on their own, and they found freedom without suicide bombings.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunisians and Egyptians will live to see freedom.\u00a0 Your acolytes, Osama, will not.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 The people of those states will (eventually) do what our State Department and our Defense Department cannot do for them.\u00a0 If we are wise, we will get out of their way.<\/p>\n<p>Osama Bin Laden will go into the history books as the modern world&#8217;s most notorious, most destructive and, in the end, most ineffective terrorist.\u00a0 The accomplishments of the peoples of North Africa have shown how pathetic he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia, Egypt, now Libya.\u00a0 Some see these events as an opening for Islamic extremists.\u00a0 I see it as the end of the Bin Laden Decade. Goodbye Bin Laden.\u00a0 You no longer speak to the oppressed.\u00a0 North African peoples took action &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2011\/02\/goodbye-bin-laden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28403,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/28403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}