With Bin Laden Dead, Jihad Has Failed and Democracy has Won.

It seems that the Bin Laden Doctrine of violent Jihad to create Theocracies has given way to popular uprisings that create democracies.

It is a different Arab world that bin Laden leaves behind.

Popular uprisings led by youth groups have toppled the authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. Similar movements are challenging the autocratic rulers of Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain. And, significantly, the millions who participated in these uprisings have not used violence to press their demands. Their ultimate aim is not the creation of the Islamic theocracies that bin Laden preached, but free democracies.

I think a handful of kids have done more for the Muslim world than a million bomb belts and tens of thousands of dead infidels and martyrs. I mean they stood up to governments that have been dictatorships for centuries and if they are lucky will join the fraternity of democracies.

Their children's lives will be far better then they ever imagined. They get to worry about sending their kids to a top flight school or what mutual funds to invest in rather then being disappeared by the Secret Police or what picture they will use for their martyrdom photo.

Mark my words in 10 years people will be talking about the "Arab Tigers" and how they are changing the world with so many young people and so much new wealth. What a way to go for Bin Laden too. Cowering behind his wife while using her as a human shield in the dead of night. Now his whole movement is teetering on collapse. He will really be a footnote in history.