In the five years since September 11, the United States has been on an apparently fruitless search to track down Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice. In her own day, Elizabeth I was the target of several plots to overthrow her rule. Although she was always able to secure her throne, there were a few cases in which her officials were unable to capture the rebel leaders. According to Elizabeth, it is not necessarily vital to catch a dangerous person as long as his power is effectively thwarted. As she wrote in 1570:
“And though the best we could have desired was to have had him taken, yet we thank God that he is in this sort overthrown and forced to flee our realm to his like company of rebels, whom we doubt not but God of His favorable justice will confound with such ends as are meet for them.”
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