Is it the End of the War after bin Laden's death?

The Taliban has lost control of Afghanistan and al Qaeda's leader is dead.

Is it time for the United States to declare victory and bring the troops home? The death of Osama bin Laden may prove to be a pivotal moment for both Democrats and Republicans exhausted by the conflict and seeking greater fiscal restraint in a new age of austerity, according to some political analysts.

Others, however, argue the successful raid on bin Laden's Pakistani compound will only strengthen the hand of a president who has so far proven largely resistant to popular sentiment on the conflict.

The U.S. war in Afghanistan has long been unpopular with the public. Forty-two percent of Americans supported the war in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released earlier this week. Fifty-two percent were opposed.

Obama has promised to start a withdrawal from Afghanistan in July and complete it by 2014. On Thursday, bipartisan legislation will be introduced requiring the president to submit a more specific timeline to Congress. The new timeline would, among other things, include dates specifying when the U.S. military will hand over security and military responsibilities to the Afghan government

It would also require the administration to file quarterly reports with Congress about the status and costs of the transition.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates "has already said we will be there until 2014. I think we ought to be out of Afghanistan in the next year or so," said Rep. Walter Jones, R-North Carolina, one of the bill's sponsors. "The leader of al Qaeda is now dead. There are no al Qaeda to speak of in Afghanistan.

 This is not a war. And it won't end. You can't win when the native people are supporting the opposition the insurgent the terrorist whatever you call them. A war is between two government not between government and people. One person's death won't change anything.