It’s worth remembering that Osama Bin Laden knew perfectly well that his motley band of fanatics was never going to be able to defeat the United States in direct confrontation. He wanted to drag us into an expensive, dispiriting, unpopular, polarizing war that would bleed our treasury and drain our morale.

We gave him two wars.

So though I’m heartened by this news (because seriously, FUCK THAT GUY), I’ll try to keep my thoughts with the families that will never be whole again - be they families of US/Coalition service members, or the families of Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, and others who were caught in the cruelties of wars that were not of their making.