Pin It We need not forget in order to move on, and with bin
Laden gone, now seems like an especially appropriate time to
turn the page on a decade of fear, overreaction and decline. To
do that, it might do to turn the page back to 1972.  After Osama
bin Laden's death, many are asking, what's next?   "Come home,
America."  Since Osama bin Laden was killed last Sunday, a
growing chorus from across the political spectrum has expressed
doubts about our ongoing presence in Afghanistan.  When the
United States invaded that country in the fall of 2001 in
retaliation for the catastrophic attacks of 9/11, our military
campaign was justified on the grounds that Afghanistan had
served as a safe haven for al-Qaida and its leader, bin Laden,
the perpetrators of those attacks. Aside from retaliating for
what amounted to an act of war, so the argument went, we needed
to root out the hornets' nest of terror that the ruling Taliban
regime had countenanced and aided. Within a few months, that
regime was overthrown, and all but