Bin Laden is dead, and he may well have been dead for some time. We won't know until we see the photographed proof of his demise. But the important fact is that Islam is simply, Jihadic, militant, uncompromising and racist-supremacist. Read the Koran. Bin Laden is one man who ostensibly led many thousands of Ghazi or Muslim warriors scattered throughout the Arab world. His death whilst remarkable is akin to killing an able general in a Long War. It helps, but it does not arrest the war, or allow you to claim victory. To defeat a pagan fascism such as Islam, you will need to war until the Islamic system is deposed or forced into change. Islamic reformation can only be achieved through a military victory and the overthrow of Arab-Muslim culture.

Muslim political-economy, zeitgeist and ethos will only be 'enlightened' when it is clear that the Islamic system is both defeated and proven to be ineradicably barren. Too many of the world's 1.7 billion Muslims believe that the Koran is 'uncreated'; that Islam is superior; that Islam is divinely appointed and protected; that Mohammed was a 'prophet', and not a warmongering racist, slave trader, sex harem owner, murderer, thief, brigand and insane epileptic. People who support the irrational paganism of Islam are not going to meekly surrender the argument and convert to Westernization. They will only admit defeat when they have had enough of blood, steel, poverty and ignorance. Even Obama, that arch-appeaser of all things Islamic, understands that the US is fantastically superior to the Muslim ideal of society, in everyway possible. In that regard he and the US elite understand that the Long War is very long indeed. 1400 years of Jihad are not going to melt away with the death of one criminally insane warrior in named Bin Laden.

Lt Col Myers

“It is important to understand that there is an ideological thread that extends across al Qaeda to the Taliban, to terrorist groups in Pakistan and to some extent, elements of the Pakistani security establishment, and then to Saudi Arabia and Iran and Hezbollah.

It is the ideology, not the acts of terror, that we must ultimately confront.

...our Islamic jihad problem remains vibrant in Pakistan and Iran, which rely on terror proxies as a matter of policy.

The combat jihad efforts of al Qaeda have been set back by killing bin Laden, yet others will step into his shoes, and we will remain focused on those violent actors while the cultural jihad of the Muslim Brotherhood moves forward every day across the globe and here at home.

Ironically, one can argue that America today is a large center of Islamic terror financing, training and preparation. Americans fighting jihad in Somalia is but an indicator, as is American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, now in Yemen.

Until we obtain a real strategic understanding of the threat we face as we did with the Soviet Union and global communism in the aftermath of World War II, we can kill the next al Qaeda leader and continue to achieve these tactical victories without achieving a clear strategic goal.”

Name and understand your enemy. Be resolute. Be realistic. Be militarily engaged. There are few other choices with dealing with history's most vicious and irrational fascist paganism, one called 'Submission', more appropriately titled 'Mohammedanism' or the cult of Mohammed.

Bin Laden did not invent the Koran. The madness of Mohammed did. From one single Sura or chapter [Chapter 4], we are regaled with 16 verses demanding that the pious Muslim kill the Unbeliever on behalf of the El-Lah moon deity and to spread his cult by the sword. Islam was spread only by war. Not by group hugs, feel-your-pain sermons, or international confabs.

[4.71] ...go forth in detachments or go forth in a body [to war].

[4.72] ...hang back [from Jihad] ...not present with them [in Jihad].

[4.74] Therefore let those fight in the way of Allah, who sell this world's life for the hereafter; and whoever fights in the way of Allah, then be he slain or be he victorious, We shall grant him a mighty reward.

[4.75] ...fight in the way of Allah...

[4.76] Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the Satan. Fight therefore against the friends of the Satan...

[4.77] ...when fighting is prescribed for them...Our Lord! why hast Thou ordained fighting for us?...

Fight then in Allah's way...rouse the believers to ardor maybe Allah will restrain the fighting of those who disbelieve...

[4.89] ...take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah’s way; but if they turn back [to their homes], then seize them and kill them wherever you find them...

[4.90] Allah has not given you a way against them [Allah supposedly does not allow Muslims to fight people friendly to Muslims].

[4.91]...seize them and kill them wherever you find them...

[4.94]...when you go to war in Allah's way...

[4.95] ...those who strive hard [Jihad] in Allah's way with their property and their persons are not equal...Allah shall grant to the strivers [i.e., Jihadist] above the holders back a mighty reward.

...whoever flies in Allah's way [forsakes his home to fight in Jihad], he will find in the earth many a place of refuge and abundant resources, and whoever goes forth from his house flying to Allah and His Apostle, and then death overtakes him [in Jihad], his reward is indeed with Allah...

[4.101] Rodwell: And when ye go forth to war in the land, it shall be no crime in you to cut short your prayers, if ye fear lest the infidels come upon you; Verily, the infidels are your undoubted enemies!

[4.102]...let them take their arms...let them take their precautions and their arms...there is no blame on you, if you are annoyed with rain or if you are sick, that you lay down your arms...

[4.103] Khalifa: Once you complete your Contact Prayer (Salat), you shall remember GOD while standing, sitting, or lying down. Once the war is over, you shall observe the Contact Prayers (Salat); the Contact Prayers (Salat) are decreed for the believers at specific times.

[4.104]...be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy...

Sher Ali:...If you have a victory [in Jihad] from Allah...

Just in one Koranic chapter we have 16 demands for violent warring Jihad against the Infidel. Even Muslims have to admit that this is not a chapter not a book of peace, but simply a political document inciting uneducated Bedouin to battle. Rewrite the Koran please.