The death of bin Laden may be nothing more than closure to an era for the USofA.  However, there are some signs that this could be a new era for our politics that is desperately needed.  There is at least a chance that this could be the injection of stark reality that we have needed for some time, a re-focus on the things that really matter.

Only time will tell, of course, but for now there are a lot of unconnected loose ends.  They do not make for one coherent thought, at least not yet.  Just as I believe history will eventually tell us that this Managed Depression started on September 11th, 2001, the day that we started to fully engage the situation may have been May 1st, 2011.

This won’t make a lot of sense yet.  History rarely does when you’re elbows into it.

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