[95th Rifleman]

I read a joke the other day that made me think.

America has releaseda definitive version of events in regards to bin laden. He was shot by Navy Seals after charging them, mounted on Shergar, wielding Iraqi WMDs and using Lord Lucan as a human shield.

Bin laden was one of the 21st century's most influential men. Think about it, one bloke managed to hide for 10 years while being hunted by the world's biggest (arguably the last) superpower, with all those resources and money behind the search. He was responsible for dragging America into the Afghan war and expending vast resources in the prosecution of that war, a conflict that has dragged so many western nations into it.

Now it's over and he's reduced to a few jokes and conspiracy theories. Yet America is still fighting in Afghanistan.

You can't help wonder who won in the end. Decades from now the conspiracy theories will still be out there and people will still be using his name to justify their terrorist agenda. Even after his death, you can't help wonder who has won really, bin laden or America.