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September 9, 2012

What Is the U.S. Mission After bin Laden?

Spencer Ackerman, Wired

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Perhaps you haven’t been paying too much attention to the news lately. If so, the Democratic Party has a message for you: Barack Obama ordered the hit on Osama bin Laden, and Mitt Romney most definitely did not. What President Obama didn’t say in Charlotte during his renomination speech, however, is where he — and U.S. national security — go from here.

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TAGGED: Osama Bin Laden, Barack Obama, United States, 2012

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