Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The death of bin Laden, a challenge for Republicans

The Wall Street Journal, William McGurn believes that the final challenge of Osama bin Laden addressed ... the Republicans. "The hunt for Bin Laden for a decade has thwarted the will of the United States put out of harm's way all their enemies. Dead, he represents a new challenge, especially for Republicans who want to attend in 2012, with a clear message: you'd better have a vision for foreign policy in addition to your plan for deficit reduction.

" Beyond the death of bin Laden, this elimination can it mean the end of the grip of paranoia in American politics?, Asks Sean Wilentz in The New Republic. "In one day, everything changed. On Saturday, U.S. policy was mired in contrevorse on the birth certificate of Obama, highlighted by Fox News, Donald Trump and a few Republicans barkers.

And Sunday night, the nation saluted the President Obama had appeared to announce the death of bin Laden. In his speech, the president spoke of national unity and justice after the elimination of the instigator of the attacks of Sept. 11. For now, the less, the paranoia has subsided. " On CNN, Fareed Zakaria believes that the elimination of bin Laden shows in the U.S.

it is "possible to get rid of terrorism operations against terrorism, rather than occupying Afghanistan to hold back Al- Qaeda. This death should also re-legitimized the U.S. armed forces, which have been damaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, partly because they were used for missions that have no military, namely the creation of an order political stability in these two countries.

"The death of Osama bin Laden means" the end of the jihadist dream, "writes Ali H. Soufan, New York Times:" He embodied for jihadists belief that their version of the Islam was the right one, that terrorism was the right weapon and that ultimately they would be victorious. The death of bin Laden did not kill the idea, but she has dealt a fatal blow.

"Salman Rushdie, in an article on the dangerous game of Pakistan, noted mischievously that" Osama bin Laden died during the night Walpurgis, the night of the Sabbath of witches and bonfires. It is not inappropriate for one night the king of the witches that fall from his broom flying and dying in the middle of a firefight.

"Le Monde. Fr

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