Osama bin Laden is gone
 

Do you feel any safer now?

I never felt unsafe. I just rode my motorcycle to home depot to buy some light bulbs; that was a much bigger risk than anything related to terrorists. Getting rid of OBL was a necessary political response.

Better late than never, is the only way I can sum it up. ;) Past that.....

No, but I am glad he is gone.

He clearly had some impressive leadership ability and ideas. (Misguided of course).

No. It might have been better for the West that he die of kidney failure rather than as a martyr or from an 'unknown sickness'.

The US only had three basic choices:

Capture him alive and have a long public trial with plenty of discussions of "intelligence sources";

Have him "disappear" and risk being perceived as ineffectual;

Assassinate him and risk creating a martyr.

I recall an old saying..'The closer they were to Caesar..the greater their fear'.

I am sure his underlings have to be wondering...'Who's next'

Hopefully with the intel we gathered we can give a few other people in his organization some 9mm sleeping pills.

Were they waiting for the release of the CIA agent who shot the people in the street before going after Bin Laden. Wonder if those killings were related to Bin Laden?

I doubt that we will ever find out.

Just remember that the U.S./ Western allies will need the assistance from the Muslim world to clean out the remaining nest.

And that dealing with them is sometimes very convoluted and co$tly, to say the least.

So...be patient .

@ Kerry...you are very keyed-in ,in terms of Islam.

From my experiances dealing with Muslims...a simple 'Hey look, we are very sorry about some of the recent events, We are extending an olive branch ,in hopes that from this point forward, our relationship can take a better turn'...goes a long way in the healing process, and further perpetuates co-operation.

This may be difficult for some Americans to wrap their heads around....but thats the way it is.

Bin Laden became superfluous as an actual threat shortly after 9/11. Even so, I'm glad that rock is removed from my shoe.

Pakistan is such a political basket case that I doubt anything the USA does (or doesn't) do will be useful. The military and ISI are corrupt and the political leadership, ineffective. The people don't trust any of them and they distrust each other along ethnic, sectarian, and tribal lines.

In the USA we think 3,000 murdered citizens is a cause for war, and I agree with that. It is good to keep in mind that more than 30,000 Pakistanis have died in a large part, due to the same violent people.

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Perhaps Muslims feel safer, since they were killed more frequently by the forces of OBL.

I haven't personally met any Muslims who supported OBL and I've met my fair share of Muslims since 9/11. Has anyone here met any Muslim supporters of OBL?