With Usama bin Laden gone, ...

...it will be up to the State Department or someone deeper in the soup to pick the next object on which to focus our attention in order not to see the sleights of hand.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

Our lives would be such bliss were the foundation of such only so simple a thing as to find and assassinate worms like bin Laden.