[RightWire] So We Caught Osama Bin Laden. Does That Matter?

Right now I'm listening to CBS coverage of the death and recovery of Osama Bin Laden. One of the talking heads just mentioned that "this is huge" and said this closes "a chapter in the war on terror."

Bin Laden's demise is welcome news, for sure. I say that as a New Yorker, and also as someone who lost a family member in 9/11. But is it really "huge"? In the scope of global Islamic terror, does the death of Osama Bin Laden really matter?

Al Qaeda isn't like a family business - it's a worldwide movement, that's spawned countless autonomous, operationally independent spinoff groups, whose only ties to Al Qaeda are ideological. The Muslim Brotherhood is taking over Egypt. Al Qaeda allied rebel troops are being supported by NATO in Libya. The left's "good" war in Afghanistan has become a bloodbath. Muslim terrorism has stretched from Indonesia and the Phillipines, to North Africa, Europe, and even America. It's now commonplace to read about "honor killings" and we even have US Senators, like Lindsey Graham, suggesting we limit freedom of speech so as not to inflame Muslim sensibilities.

I don't know that Osama Bin Laden's death means much at all to the United States, and even less to our fight against creeping sharia and a culture of capitulation of Muslim fanaticism.

It might mean something to the radical Muslims, though. They can always use a martyr to advance their cause.

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Posted By Tax Nomo to RightWire at 5/01/2011 11:15:00 PM