tonytalkssports My Take on Sports, particularly the Yankees, Maple Leafs and Browns

U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!! U.S.A.!!!!

While watching the Mets-Phillies game last night, I received a message on my iphone indicating that President Obama was going to address the nation at 10:30pm.  Seemed like it was going to be something big.  Could it be greater involvement in Libya??  Was there another imminent threat??

I immediately switched to MSNBC and after15-20 minutes it was reported that Osama Bin Laden was dead.  I was hoping that this was not a drone hit but that American forces actually killed him.  Moments later the President announced to the world that American special forces engaged in a gunfight with the mastermind of 9/11 and killed him.  They had the body and no Americans were hurt.

While the murder of this despicable individual will not undo the harm that he caused this country and the families who lost loved ones on that day, it does brings a measure of justice.  It also gives us pride in knowing that the U.S. still has the ability to accomplish a special mission.  Remember these types of missions are not a given.  Things can go wrong as evidenced back in Iran in 1980 when the US tried to rescue the hostages that were taken by Iranian extremists only to have their helicopter crash and the mission failed.

God Bless our troops, God Bless President Obama, God Bless the United States of America!!!