Uncommon Commentary from Agence Global May 6, 2011

Bin Laden’s Legacy of Failure   by Rami G. Khouri
Bin Laden-like criminals will continue to pester the world, but hundreds of millions of Arabs, Turks and Iranians who clamor for democratic dignity can change the world for the better.
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The Death of an Icon   by Richard Bulliet
Osama bin Laden, the visual icon of terrorism in our fear driven age, is gone. No one can replace him.
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The World after Bin Laden   by Patrick Seale
The killing of Bin Laden may give American opinion a moment of triumphalism, but it needs to be followed by a major re-think of American policies. Only then will Americans be safe.
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Work to be Done in a Post-Bin Laden World   by Rami G. Khouri
Celebrations should not cause us to repeat the same mistake on Bin Laden’s death made during his life -- to exaggerate the man and the institution of Al-Qaeda, and to downplay the operational political dynamics that have consistently defined his world and ours.
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War-weariness in the United States?   by Immanuel Wallerstein
For the U.S. election in 2012, with the combination of geopolitical and economic pressures that everyone is feeling, war-weariness will be a very serious factor.
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Egypt Shifts the Region   by Rami G. Khouri
Sometimes you can almost physically feel the political earth shifting beneath your feet. One of those moments occurred in Cairo a few days ago, when the main Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed the Egyptian-brokered reconciliation agreement.
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The Age of Deleveraging   by William Greider (The Nation)
If Obama continues to refuse to intervene in the economy, Americans are in for a painful decade.
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