In this 1998 file photo, Osama bin Laden speaks to the journalists in Khost, Afghanistan and made available Friday March 19, 2004. A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)The raid by American special forces on Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan was a spectacular success. But that success was not guaranteed. A thousand things could have gone wrong!
We rejoice that our Navy SEALs were able to do their amazing job and return safely – and that bin Laden, after years of doing evil, finally has been eliminated.
But we cannot help but ask some questions, such as:
What if bin Laden had not been in the building in Pakistan at the time the raid took place?
What if the mission had failed? (One of our helicopters had a hard landing.)