I am still struggling with the simple question, is President Obama right? Were the last 10 years of sacrifice, struggle and war made tangible yesterday with the death of Osama? Was it all worth it? Watching the flash celebrations last night in front of the White House, at Ground Zero in Times Square and in town squares across the country I was confronted with an entire generation of young Americans who have become adults in an age that has proven that American might does not always make right – that it can’t always protect our shores. A generation that has known the costs and burdens of two wars that cannot be won in the same ways of the past. A generation that finds their country responsible for 45% of the world’s military spending while shortchanging humanitarian and diplomatic efforts abroad.
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