Torture, lies and ethical abrogations beyond in our wake, bin Laden in a body bag was the quintessential counter terrorism triumph post-9/11.
But the triumph of "post-racial" Democratic politics has not been a triumph for African-Americans in the aggregate.
For the world outside of Poland, the results not only signify the triumph of post-Communist freedoms for the people of Poland, but also assure Poland's friends of the country's continuing commitment to good relations with neighboring states, active support for European and trans-Atlantic institutions, and significant contributions to international peace and security.
Their tabloid-friendly relationship, a triumph of post-modern meta-reality, peaked just a couple of weeks ago when the two returned from their fake fake elopement to Mexico to engineer a fake real wedding in a Beverly Hills courtroom, which the court happily went along with while presumably telling a truly in love gay couple to go fuck themselves.
From the Libertines to the Enemy, the prosaic and clumsy have triumphed in post-Britpop UK guitar music.
The child's cause was not much aided by the triumph of a post-Napoleonic bourgeois cast of thought or by the wave of post-1871 nationalism.
This was the triumph of French Post-Impressionism, and it took American art more than a decade to recover.
They might have beaten TFC without a single shot on goal - a triumph for the post-truth age - but this was the fulfilment of a club that had long boasted everything but on the field success.
"Reaching the second is undoubtedly a great triumph," Ms Matthei posted on her Twitter account.
Middleweight Kevin Casey, who kept the fight despite the death of father-in-law Muhammad Ali on Friday, fought Elvis Mutapcic to a split draw – eerily similar to the narrow, disputed split-decision triumph that Ali posted over Ken Norton in his only fight at the Forum in 1973.
Her success is a negative triumph that appeals to a post-post-painting generation of viewers who, having rediscovered the long-derelict joys of pictorial abstraction, want to dive into them without the nuisance of boning up on art history or theory first.
