Roundup: Media's Take

Levi Rickert: Geronimo Was No Osama

 ... After President Obama spoke, the television cameras turned to the jubilant crowds outside to the north side of the White House. Here was a crowd of hundreds chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A”, all proud to be Americans.For a moment we were all Americans. We were not separated by partisan politics. We were not separated by race or ethnicity. We were all Americans.

Michael Oren: The Ultimate Ally

Michael Oren is Israel's ambassador to the United States and author, most recently, of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present.

Mark Moyar: The Kings We Crown

Mark Moyar is the author of A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency From the Civil War to Iraq.

John Yoo: Will Obama Recognize Bush's Role in bin Laden Mission?

Mr. Yoo is a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an official in the Justice Department from 2001-03 and is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Praveen Swami: How the West was conned by its Pakistani 'allies'

Praveen Swami is the Telegraph's Diplomatic Editor.

Adam Curtis: For 10 years, Osama bin Laden filled a gap left by the Soviet Union. Who will be the baddie now?

Adam Curtis is an award-winning documentary maker at the BBC. His films include the Power of Nightmares about the parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and neoconservatism in the United States.

Mosharraf Zaidi: In Abbottabad, the Failures and Resiliency of Pakistan

Mosharraf Zaidi advises governments and international organizations on public policy and international aid. He writes a weekly column for Pakistan's the News. His writing is archived at www.mosharrafzaidi.com

Andrew Leonard: Obama Still Hasn't Shaken the Carter Syndrome

Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon.

Jeffrey Lord: Obama's Churchill Dilemma

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

William J. Dobson: It’s Official: Barack Obama is Not Jimmy Carter

William J. Dobson, a former managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine, is a special correspondent for The New Republic. He is currently writing a book on authoritarian regimes.

David Brooks: What Drives History

David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times.Osama Bin Laden’s mother was about 15 at the time of his birth. Nicknamed “The Slave” inside the family, she was soon discarded and sent off to be married to a middle manager in the Bin Laden construction firm....

Rupert Cornwell: America must end its 9/11 mindset

Rupert Cornwell is Washington correspondent for The Independent.Did he change everything? In the end, probably not. The present upheavals across the Arab world that he sought to re-invent have everything to do with economics, and next to nothing to do with him. Undeniably however, Osama bin Laden changed America.

Mark Weisbrot: Osama bin Laden ... cold war veteran

Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, DC. The killing of Osama bin Laden is being celebrated by the US media and government officials who spin it as one of the most important events since 11 September 2001. To the extent that it weakens al-Qaida, that would certainly be a gain. But it is worth taking a sober look at the reality behind all the hype.

Bret Stephens: Obama's Finest Hour

Bret Stephens writes the Journal's "Global View" column on foreign affairs.There was only one discordant note in Barack Obama's otherwise masterly speech Sunday night announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden. It came when the president invoked the word "justice" to describe what had just been done to the architect of 9/11.It wasn't quite the word he was looking for. But actions speak louder than words.

Paul Berman: Relentlessness, Bin Laden, and the Verdict of History

Paul Berman is a contributing editor for The New Republic and the author of, among other works, Power and the Idealists, about the origins of liberal and humanitarian interventionism.

Simon Tisdall: Osama bin Laden's death will haunt Pakistan

Simon Tisdall is an assistant editor of the Guardian and a foreign affairs columnist. 

Dale Carpenter: How the Law Accepted Gays

THE prestigious law firm King & Spalding has not fully explained its decision this week to stop assisting Congress in defending the law that forbids federal recognition of same-sex marriage.

Steve Kornacki: The Roots of Birtherism Go Beyond Race

Steve Kornacki is Salon's news editor. Reach him by email at SKornacki@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @SteveKornacki.

Brian Morton: Britain's Atavistic Royalism

Brian Morton is a former academic, Times of London journalist and BBC arts and music presenter. He currently writes and farms in the West of Scotland.

Eric Li: How China Broke the West's Monopoly on Modernization

Eric Li is founder and managing director of a leading venture capital firm in Shanghai and a doctoral candidate at Fudan University’s School of International Relations and Public Affairs. The following was adapted from his opening remarks at the Tsinghua Centennial China Model Forum and translated from Chinese by the author.