The Osama Opening
If the world is to reap the benefits of Osama bin Laden's death, the respective national aims of Afghanistan, the US, India, Pakistan, Iran, and the region’s other important countries must somehow be reconciled. The US has a unique opportunity to assist in finding the correct regional balance.
NEW DELHI – The image, caught on home video, is a defining one: a hunched Osama bin Laden, in pathetic, lonely domesticity, with a grey beard and a blanket covering him like a shawl, surveying the television wasteland for images of himself. How banal this epitome of evil turned out to be.