Killing bin Laden is not a foreign policy

Osama bin Laden is dead, but President Obama is determined not to let him rest. The bearded terrorist who once led al Qaeda has become, for Obama and his surrogates, a bumper-sticker slogan to be trotted out at campaign events — a symbol of the supposed success of his administration’s foreign policy.

“Osama bin Laden is dead, General Motors is alive,” is how Vice President Biden put it at the Democratic convention.