Robert Scheer reminds us that Osama bin Laden started out as something other than an enemy of the United States. And that we helped create the movement he led.
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Indeed. The celebrations, though understandable, left me feeling uneasy. I'd hate for this country to lose an opportunity to rethink how we engage with that region, in light of killing bin Laden and the uprisings in the Middle East. I blogged about it as well: http://americaincommon.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/thoughts-on-bin-laden/