Finally, he is dead.   What was begun long before September 11, 2001 has led to this, but no one has any illusions that bin Laden's al Qaeda network is dying with him. Here's what's bugging me, though.   Read the Presidential Timeline. Then read the full text of the President's announcement of bin Laden's death.   According to my most optimistic view of the situation, President Obama learned of bin Laden's location - the location in which he would be found and killed - on Thursday, at the last Presidential Briefing of the week. While President Obama was holding a meeting regarding Libya and Qaddaffy Duck, he was thinking about killing bin Laden. (Edit: CNN now states that Friday morning was the time of the decision's being made.)     While Mrs. Obama was hosting the children of the Executive Branch employees at Take Our Sons and Daughters To Work Day, President Obama was thinking about how soon bin Laden was going to die.   While the President was meeting with the Secretary of State - for at least an hour and a half, if they didn't have lunch together over the subject - he was planning, if they were not together planning, the impending strike action against another human being. While Jay Carney was "briefing" the press, he was swallowing the knowledge that the Team America: World Police were about to saddle up and ride out against Public Enemy #0.       While the President and the First Lady were hosting party leaders for dinner, the phrase "GO TIME!" was in the President's head.   All those events that are on the calendar from Thursday until now: the viewing of the devastation in Alabama, the Space Shuttle launch, the Correspondents' Dinner... All of these things, said and done with the full realization that, within just a few days, by his word (which, granted, is a little easier than by his hand), out over there somewhere, American soldiers would be risking their own lives to assault and kill a man.   And then, it was done. What was the aftermath?   Americans cheering in the streets. Practically rioting in celebration of a man's death.  I'm just curious, what is it that we're celebrating? Don't get me wrong, I am glad that there will be no more terror attacks planned by Osama bin Laden carried out against the world at…

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