With the recent news of the attack on a compound in Pakistan and the subsequent death of terror-lord Osama bin Laden, there is much to think back on over the last ten years. I know everyone over the age of probably 13 or 14 remembers where they were and what they were doing when bin Laden's master plan came to fruition. Oh how that day changed us as a country forever and mostly for the worse.
At the outset, as President Obama mentioned in his speech last night, we came together like never before. Republican, Democrat, Yankee, Southerner, whatever race, it didn't matter. We all cried. We were all emotionally destroyed. We were all New Yorkers. We were all American.
The whole world was American.
We soon realized that bin Laden and Al-Qaida were behind the attack and the whole world came together to attempt to bring these extremists to justice. And that's where the warm-fuzzy feelings start to go away. Instead of asking for sacrifice from Americans, then-president Bush told us to spend. He could
