An excerpt from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States:
From The Associated Press
On U.S. will:
In the weeks since the audacious May 1 raid on a Pakistan compound that yielded terrorist Osama bin Laden, the story of how that was accomplished has been fleshed out with more details and, as impossible as it would seem, has become an even more compelling expression of military and political will.
An article by Associated Press intelligence writer Kimberly Dozier tapped sources who illustrated how high the stakes were in diplomatic and human terms, and how elite members of Navy SEAL Team 6 drilled for the mission and then relied on their training to roll with what could have been disastrous setbacks in the plan to take out bin Laden: the fear of leaks that led to the raid on that moon-less night; how heated air felled a helicopter filled with SEALs outside the compound; and how, in a matter of seconds, they fired the shots to bin Laden's chest and head that killed him.
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The now-famous photograph taken of President Barack Obama and his anxious national security team in the White House Situation Room on May 1 makes even more sense in light of those tense insights. ...
Future missions will not always be measured as successes for the leader of the country or for those who follow his orders -- but by any measure, this one was. Now the nation in whose name the bin Laden raid was carried out has a better idea about the resolve it took by civilians and soldiers to punctuate the end of a vile terrorist's story.
-- The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.
