Ding Dong bin Laden is gone

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

And while, yes, you don't have to, you still haven't said if you'd say the same thing if the shoe of killing Osama was on a Republican president's foot.

Not an unreasonable request.

Yes, Obama deserves some credit. He absolutely made the call, as it was his alone to make.

Here's what I liken it to. The Berlin wall fell when GHWBush was President. Did he deserve THE credit? Not all, but some, and there was credit due the previous administration of Reagan and the policies thereof.

I also liken it to Carter and the attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages. This was a little unique in that while he authorized it, he also aborted it mid operation. I think he deserves a lot of blame (more than if the operation had simply failed without his mid operational call to abort it), but not all of it. Should it have worked, he would have deserved some credit, but not all

So if Bush were in office, I do think my reaction would be the same.

I think there is WAY too much short term thinking in politics and the American public in general. Very little on a global scale is the result of the policies of one individual or one event. It is an eviolution of relations and policies and events over time, and FAR too often the blame is pointed at one man or one thing. It should be a view of the macro, not the micro.