Ha. IMNSHO OBL’s influence is more solid than his constituent molecules, which have, I suspect, indeed diffused. Or been boiled, been eaten by roaches, rotted under the rocks or other otherwise dispersed themselves into the biosphere on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

OBL makes a convenient excuse to continue cleaning up Islamofascism. Were the administration to admit success — putting the head of OBL up on a pike on the White House fence, say — the clamor to quit the war and bring home the troops would be insufferable. As is, the necessary job continues to be perceived as necessary even by those struthious souls who would prefer never to have heard the word “terrorist”.