Bagging bin Laden doesn’t end the long war

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Bin Laden died in a mansion. Hitler died inside a bunker. Both bit the dust before the wars they started were finished. The Fuehrer shot himself on April 30, 1945. While Nazi Germany formally surrendered eight days later, the war against Japan went on for six more months, and the U.S. spent the next four decades dealing with the aftermath.

Today, even with bin Laden dead, the U.S. still has much to do before it can declare victory in the long war on terrorists.

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