Did killiing Osama Bin Laden matter?

[Buster's Uncle]

Well, pansy pacifist that I am, I don't look favorably on any of our involvement in Afghanistan or Iraq. I understand the apparent need to have Done Something after 9/11, and it's clearly the case that the Taliban were not the best caretakers of the Afghani people, but I don't believe war was the right answer. Throughout history, states have suffered from a "when all you have is a hammer" attitude. I believe there are radically different (non-violent) solutions to our problems that we essentially never practice (making us bad at them, which doesn't help anything). Alas.

Spooks and 200 special forces to organize the opposition -already violent- was an astonishingly mild and smart -especially for the statist clown/thugs behind it- way to go - I don't see any way around sending a lot more people afterwards to prop up the warlords' corrupt front man for who knows how long -and again, it will end badly- but it was that or busting up Baghdad in the 90s again; pointless.

It had to be demonstrated that having anything to do with those AQ troublemakers gets your country nothing but more trouble.  HAD to.  Was.  The alternative shed SO much more blood.

Like the Second Oil Crusade, we totally won the hell out of the war - it's occupations we lose.  Food for thought.