"We have to remember that the enemy toppled the Taliban and Saddam's regime."

Obama: If You Doubt My Commitment To Punish Terrorists, Ask Osama Bin Laden

While America has vacillated between distraction and disinterest when it comes to Asia, a Rising China has quietly seized the opportunity to seize territory and expand its influence and power - and thereby nudge history in its favor.

Washington reporters told top editor they worried the story gave oxygen to unsubstantiated claims about the raid.

The roots of Sunni Islam's ailments it must be noted are not entirely to do with religion, as most journalists, politicians and "experts" in Europe and across the Atlantic never tire of repeating. Rather than scripture and theology, it is in politics and economics, in power balances, foreign interventions and the scramble for influence and resources that the causes of its ills reside.