Does anybody honestly believe that if islamist terrorists had the capability to detonate a nuke in the West, they would be saving it for OBL's death?
I suppose some might see it as necessary to create a new boogie man but killing bin Laden, as satisfactory and righteous as it might have been will have zero impact on global terror. Any near-term nuking is unlikey to be related to the subject of today's headlines.
Terrorists; political, religious or just plain whacko have been out there for centuries and the only successful solutions have been to render them irrelevant. Kill enough of them (even using extra-legal means) and they might eventually decide the cost is not worth their goals and remove the social and economic support that sustains them.
Every successful terror attack has stemmed from a failure of intelligence but so far it seems that this success was due to solid intelligence, patiance and a selected and precise application of firepower. You cannot beat terrorism with Mk82 laser guided bombs but a 5.56mm steel-jacketed bullet to the brain administered at close range in the dead of night can work wonders.
That works until the next fanatical ideology comes along, then you must count your losses and repeat as required.
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