Osama Bin Lyin'

The ficticious character that was built up around a relative nobody from a fabulously rich family - Bin Laden - had served its purpose. The actor playing America's most hated man was no longer feared enough to keep people watching the soap-opera, so he was written out of the series.
And in an even more unbelievable plot-twist than the award-winning performance by Saddam Hussain in 'Death by hanging as filmed on a mobile phone', with this latest story-line THEY DIDN'T EVEN FILM IT!!! In fact, the only evidence it even happened was a lone Twitter-cast of an on-the-spot witness.
Do I believe that Bin Laden is dead? Maybe the question should be, 'did he ever exist in the first place?' If you live in Spain, you'll know that a couple of years ago, the leader of one of the Spanish political parties was photoshopped darker skin and used as the official face of what Bin Laden might look like without the beard!
The problem with creating a fictional character and putting them out onto the world stage, is that it soon becomes impossible to prove that they don't exist. Just because you catch your parents in the act of laying Christmas presents under the tree doesn't mean that Santa hadn't delegated the job to them!
So now what? Bin Laden had become something of a media joke - and what's the point having a bad-guy that nobody's scared of? The most important thing for the 'War on Terror' is to maintain fear of terrorism - so the international business consortium called al-Qaeda will go into bankrupcy, it's assets will be divided up between its subsidiary businesses (like Chechnya), and the smaller, more localised killing can resume.
Anyway, with Libya, we're all back to hating dictators instead of fearing terrorists - wasn't it Libyan terrorists that shot Dr Emmit Brown?! And they're remaking Back to the Future now!
The fact is that terrorism will continue to exist as long as there are shady government organisations prepared to carry it out and blame it on whoever the government doesn't like at the time - maybe Julian Assange will step up as the new leader of Al-Qaeda?!

Cowboys of the Wild Westernisation

Capitalism got scared recently. There were some bandits riding into town, robbing banks and undermining entire economies. Here in Europe, if you were a centre-left government leader, you could expect attacks from all sides until you agreed to impliment right-wing economic policy.

But now that the financial crisis is fading into memory (in every context except our long-overdue inflation-based pay-rises!), we see the pale faces of colonisers marching the plains once more.

But this time, the white man (and in the WASP-West, Obama is on their team) is spreading democracy in the Middle East instead of civilisation in the Wild West. Just like those Puritan founding fathers, the modern missionaries will aloow the death-slaughter-massacre of millions of darker-skinned "savages" in order to teach them how to be more like us. So now, with protests all over the Middle-East, and democracy spreading like a plague, Hilary Clinton throwing $25 million to dissidents who use social networks to protest against oppressive regimes (and not even smiling when stating that Wikileaks was not the same thing at all!), if we step back, we can see a very dangerous void emerging.
Like them or loathe them, dictators in the Middle East have tended to prevent the spread of extremis. Saddam's Iraq might not have had freedom of speech, but at least there weren't bombs going off every few days. Once these nations have democratic elections, muslim extremists like the Taliban (the offshoot of the US/British supported Mujahideen from the old cold war) will be voted into power.
Meanwhile, in Europe, Merkel (Germany), then Cameron (UK), then Sarkosy (France), and now Burlosconi (Italy) have all said that "multi-culturalism isn't working". If I was a European Muslim and heard the leader of my country's elected government saying that, I'd be very afraid. Wasn't that what the Catholic Kings said in Spain just before they started burning heretics?