Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long … - Peter Bergen

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The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.

Peter Bergen

Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

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The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable of manufacturing and deploying chemical, radiological, and biological weapons. Al Qaeda attracts the kind of highly educated men who one day might be able to pull off such an attack.

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I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U. S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

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Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

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There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

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I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation. . . Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

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