Credit Where It's Due

John Hinderaker at Power Line speculates as to whether US intelligence experts have long known the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. What Hinderaker postulates is that the Bush administration has been so successful in thwarting terrorist attacks after 9/11 in large part as a result of intelligence intercepted from close bin Laden associates.

Whether this speculation is true or not, I think that the lack of a terrorist attack in the US after 9/11 is one of the unsung triumphs of the Bush administration. No one that I knew on September 12, 2001 believed that we would not see another attack of similar magnitude for the next 8 years. Despite its much-publicized failings, the Bush administration deserves our admiration for this achievement.