Maybe it would have been better if Bin Laden were still with us

What an old softie he was, compared with the throat-cutting killers of the so-called Islamic State. The black-bannered executioners are back at work in Ramadi and Palmyra and yet, back from the dead, old Osama bin Laden returns once more, fished out of the Indian Ocean (if he was ever there) for one final reappearance. He…