bin Laden: Dead but Not Gone

Radley Balko has verbalized what I was feeling this morning.

Yes, bin Laden the man is dead. But he achieved all he set out to achieve, and a hell of a lot more. He forever changed who we are as a country, and for the worse. Mostly because we let him. That isn’t something a special ops team can fix.

There are a lot of bullet points that detail the way America has been changed for the worse, such as the TSA and unilateral executions. Read the whole thing here.

This is why I didn't find myself overly exuberant and joining in the White House party.