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05/03/11

Will We Overestimate the Importance of Osama bin Laden's Death? Lawrence F. Kaplan

Always listen for the “to be sure” line, the caveat that reveals we may be getting things backward, or at least getting ahead of the curve. In announcing the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama wisely put the to-be-sure front and center: “The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat Al Qaeda. But his death does not mark the end of our effort.” Good. “We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad.” Also good. But the point, so obvious as to be redundant the first time around, needs to be made to Americans in particular. More than others, after all, we have a unique tendency to personalize foreign threats.

From Kaiser Wilhelm on, and for reasons that respond to needs unrelated to national security as such, we’ve always pinned the blame (and credit) for mass movements on their most visible spokesmen. Tojo, Milosevic, Saddam, and, on the flipside, Yeltsin or Aristide—George Kennan was right to lament the power of the bogeyman in American foreign policy. The persistence of nasty and divisive political impulses runs counter to our progress narrative, and also tends to be more difficult to explain. Rather, in accounting for the obduracy of certain countries and ideologies, presidents have advanced the proposition that, were it not for a handful of men like Saddam Hussein, the late Mohamed Farah Aideed, and Osama bin Laden, their supporters would eagerly sign on to the American program. “You think the Germans would have perpetrated the Holocaust on their own without Hitler?” President Clinton asked in reference to the bestial conduct of the Serbs in Kosovo. “Political leaders do this kind of thing.”

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