Remember when the demise of a despised enemy was worthy of celebrating in the streets with sailors kissing nurses and parades? Like the “good old days” of the Cold War, which ended with a big parade down the main street of my city, we Americans came together to celebrate victories with ticker tape and balloons. we even let the occasional President who had not a thing to do with the accomplishment put his name on it and take all the credit. Seriously. do you know which President’s name is on the moon lander?*

These days, things are different.

As proof, I offer the recent dirt nap of one @al-Bagdadi.

How you react to his demise says more about the politics you embrace than it does about this victory in the undeclared quasi-not-a-war against an organization.