Assassinating a foreign national

Ned notes that many of his fellow countrymen are literally beside themselves with glee over the reported assassination of Bin Laden by U.S. troops. And Ned himself, while he would have preferred that the criminal be captured and brought to justice, thinks that, based on the limited evidence available to him, overall a rough, quasilegal, frontier-style 'justice' was done. But he, noting the prickliness of the Pakistanis over the apparent high-handed manner in which U.S. troops violated Pakistani air space and carried out the assassination in the sovereign territory of another country, would like to pose a philosophical question.
For years, a Cuban anti-Castro fanatic resided in the Miami area, a person whom the Cuban government was convinced carried out a bombing of a Cuban air flight, causing scores of innocent deaths. The U.S. government sneered at, and generally pooh-poohed the Cuban protests. Now, suppose a Cuban assassination team had infiltrated the U.S., stormed the house of the suspected terrorist, shot him dead, than left, proclaiming to the world that justice had been done.
What do Ned's friends think the response of the U.S. government to the Cuban government would have been?

The Death of Bin Laden

Yesterday Obama allowed as how the killing of Bin Laden testified to the "greatness of the American people" and how we should all feel happy and unified at last. Ned wonders what prescription medication he has been abusing.
To imagine that somehow the death of Bin Laden will "unify the country" and end the "funk" that this country has been in since the financial crisis of 2007-8 is the most preposterous kind of drivel. There are tens of millions out of work, or working multiple part-time jobs for low pay and no benefits, and fifty million without real health care. We still have 40k troops in Iraq, and 140k in Afghanistan, we are bombing wedding parties and school kids every day in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And the Obama people agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts for the Sneering Plutocracy, the single greatest reason why the budget is disastrously out of balance. The other reasons? A trillion dollars flushed down the toilet in Iraq, and an obscene $800 billion a year spent on the military. All the while the sneering plutocrats get richer and more smug, while the rest of us wait, hat in hand, for crumbs to fall out of the cat's bowl.