Osama's Dead

So Osama's dead. Facebook went crazy for that one hour following his death. Many had a mixed reaction, didn't know how to respond to this event. Obama's speech was short and to the point, and had very good content.

These were my thoughts following the event, (I posted these statuses):

10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, and $1,188,263,000,000 later, we got him. Was it worth it? Especially since this isn't causing the troops to come home..

‎"America will never be at war with Islam. Our war is not with Islam. Osama was never a Muslim leader." - Barack Obama

My friend Kristine just texted me saying, "it seems like a lot of my friends are getting so much shit on facebook for saying that reflecting on the past ten years might be a more appropriate response than partying and waving around te american flag. Human beings make me so sad." I responded, and she replied saying, "I just absolutely hate seeing americans drunk off deaths, wars, and invasions. That's all we're good at :( yet if bush died tomorrow and people across the middle east celebrated, they'd be painted as ungrateful brown religious fanatics. So frustrating!"

I can't put it in better words. Basically, yes Osama died, it's good that he won't be conducting harmful acts of terrorism anymore. But isn't it sad that the only way to get him to stop is to kill him? That's reality. Also, I don't think we should be celebrating so much. I obviously don't support him, and I'm glad that the man who 'hijacked our religion and terrorized the world' is gone. However, it is unnatural to celebrate someone's death. Somewhere he does have a family, who are probably the only people mourning his death. Another issue is the people who follow him. Just because he's gone doesn't mean that the problem of terrorism is over. There are still more terrorists in the world, and they know that we're celebrating his death over here in America. Wouldn't that cause them to want to react? We need to be cautious. Finally, maybe we would have some more reason to celebrate if this meant that the troops are coming home. But they're not, and so basically the death if this guy who has been irrelevant to the war on terror in the past few years doesn't mean much for us. Not right away, at least.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/20115214431590378.html

This article talks about the effects of the event on Afghanistan.