May 19, 2011 Middle East Live Blog: A Noun, a Verb and Bin Laden by Jonathan S. Tobin Predictably, the president leads off his speech by spiking the football with a passage on the defeat of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Share via: More Letter + A A - You may also like Israel Deserves More Credit for Eliminating Syria’s Loose Weapons by Seth Mandel The Wages of Peace with Israel by Seth Mandel This Is What Imperial Collapse Looks Like by Seth Mandel Scroll Down For the Next Article