Bullet Points On OBL's Death (get it? bullet points. Ha, I slay myself sometimes.)

• The death of Bin Laden won't mean what I'm afraid too many Americans think it will: the end of Al Queada. He had nothing to do with the day to day decision making process of that organization for years and had just been trying to keep himself exchanging gases and burning calories for the same length of time.







• It does show the bad guys that if the US wants you dead- you will die. This will be the best lesson to take away and one the bad guys are likely to get before they dissolve in despair over OBL's death and get real jobs.







• People are overjoyed at the news of his death and if the news of his death is good enough for them, then great, but that's all it's really going to mean- is he is dead.







• Another killjoy thought: his death may reinvigorate the very outdated and short sighted notion that killing bad guys will always solve our problems.







• Will his death have any impact on President Obama's chance of re-election in 2012? I really hate the inherent cynicsm in that question, but to answer the question- I doubt it especially as people learn how little the death will mean materially.







• I think it interesting that such a high value target wasn't vaporised in an airstrike or dismembered by a Hellfire, but had his brains blown out by a 5.56 round fired by an operator from relatively close range.







• Providential.







• President Obama's announcement of the operation was very good- very Presidential. I would be curious to know if he wrote it himself.







• The body was identified through DNA recovered from a sister who died in a US hospital.







• People are surprised the body was buried at sea. I would have been shocked if anything different was done. Regardless, it simply was not going to be turned over to next of kin.







• The first pic I saw of the body, a screen grab from Pak television was obviously fake.







• Somewhere a Navy SEAL operator knows he was the one to send OBL to Hell and his buddies know it also.







• His name is Legend.