New global bad guys will rise up to replace the departed ones

Within moments of the announcement of the death of Kim Jong Il, the fastest brains in the West were firing away with clever comments about how the 2011 deaths of Kim, Moammar Gadhafi and Osama Bin Laden reflected well on President Barack Obama and were somehow linked. Some threw in the deposed despots of the Arab Spring for good measure. And while it certainly could be said that 2011 was not a ...