it has been a war and not going to end because we killed this notorious international criminal, osama bin laden. there are so many other questions still have to be resolved here. based on everything we've been hearing, he's not had command and control of al qaeda for some time. he has been an enormously important symbol, obviously, for this country. the idea he was killed in a firefight that went as well as it did is an enormous triumph for the american military operation and the persistence of this white house to go find him and take him out. i'm struck -- nicole was just talking about the politics of it all, you can't remove it entirely from that context, but here is a president who came into office as someone w who -- some real questions about his ability to be a commander in chief. some of the most impressive things he's done in the 2 1/2 years he's been in office, first the nobel speech prize when he