| May 4, 2011 | Peace / SecurityOsama bin Laden, the 9-11 mastermind, is dead. Our man in Afghanistan, the scion of a wealthy Saudi family who helped us defeat the Soviet Union in that Cold War theater, is gone. Three decades later, U.S. special forces nailed him in Pakistan. But the Global War on...
| | Peace / SecurityEditor’s note:This blog post is the same as Donald Kaul’s May 9 column, Making an Exception for Osama Bin Laden. I don’t like to exult in the death of people, not even people I don’t like. I think it’s bad form. I’m making an...
| May 3, 2011 | Peace / SecurityWe have, once again, played right into Osama bin Laden’s hands. This might seem like an odd assertion, since the al-Qaeda mastermind is finally dead at the hands of U.S. Special Forces, most heads of state have voiced their congratulations, and practically the...
| | Peace / SecurityI recall precisely where I was, as well as what I was doing, when I heard the horrible and heart-wrenching news of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the aborted attack represented by the plane that went down in rural...
| May 2, 2011 | Peace / Security[Amman, Jordan] — U.S. agents killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, apparently without cooperation from the government in Islamabad. The al-Qaeda leader was responsible for great suffering; I do not mourn his death. But every action has causes and consequences,...
