In authorising the lightning raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama erased a corrosive strain of criticism that has shadowed him from the day he declared himself a candidate for president in 2007 – that he was not up to the job of commander-in-chief.
Underlying the recent surge in personal attacks on the US president, which suggested that he was born overseas or was a Muslim, was the unspoken suggestion that Mr Obama would not stand up for America.
With the decision to order a covert operation that claimed the life of the world’s most wanted terrorist, Mr Obama has a compelling new narrative for the American people.
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