After Bin Laden: The War on Terror and the Direction of U.S. Foreign Policy
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
By Dr. Brian K. Clardy, Murray State University
By now, Osama Bin Laden has gotten used to his new lodgings in Hell, and those of us among the five billion grateful terrestrial beings that survived his bloody reign of horror are all the better for it.
President Barack Obama, his key staff, intelligence officials, and the military personnel responsible for bringing this sick being to his demise are to be congratulated, celebrated, and applauded. But I am keeping the champagne on ice for now, because post Five-One-Eleven American foreign policy objectives are yet to be clarified. Moreover, there does not seem to be any type of credible bipartisan consensus in Washington on the way forward as the United States seeks to craft a pragmatic diplomacy.

By LARRY WILKE

