Dan Riehl looks at the week and Obama's part in Osama bid Laden's end.
Various agencies, agents and entities did their jobs just as they were supposed to do, creating a set of circumstances in which Obama had no other choice politically. They couldn't simply let him go! So, he did what he always does under those circumstances, the same thing he had done to create them - he acquiesced.
In the end, other than whomever actually pulled the trigger, a bodyguard following instructions, or a brave member of SEAL Team Six that, one or the other of them acting as trained and instucted under their own circumstances, no one actually decided to kill Osama bin Laden - it was circumstances.
The Obama "too busy for birth certificate" meme came out quickly Sunday night. Events since seem to lessen the credit Obama deserves for the action.
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