I am very proud of the United States that they finally managed to kill an old man they have been trying to kill for over 30 years.
The irony is that if they had left him for another year, his kidneys might have failed anyway. But by sending U.S. troops to administer the fatal bullet, our country is sending a powerful message to the rest of the world. And that message is: We suck! But we can still kill you!
Nevermind that our government couldn’t save any of the hundreds of individuals whose houses were swept away by tornados or flooding. Nevermind that the dollar is at a three year low against all other major currencies. And nevermind that the very victory we have worked so long for has caused a rash of new terrorist attacks both at home and abroad, such as in Afghanistan where the Taliban have declared May the start of a new “Spring Offensive.”
That last is particularly disturbing, since many Americans seem to be under the impression that taking out the head will destroy the body of this beast we call “terrorism”. We even declared war on it, as though the terrorists were all camping out in a castle somewhere, and if we could simply find the right location to bomb, everything would be alright. A terrorist is, by definition, an individual who for any number reasons holds a grudge against American imperialism, and we’ve just given them a whole new reason to be pissed off.
But, hey, we can always declare a moral victory. Through methods such as enhanced interrogation techniques, domestic wiretapping, and unilateral military action, the United States has shown that we are willing to get just as dirty as our enemy.
Waterboarding used to be decried as torture, and domestic wiretapping an unconscionable violation of civil rights, but as in all things I suppose the ends justify the means. But what ends? 80 civilians killed in a bomb blast on May 13, with the promise of more? And what means? In the fallout to this operation, we learned that Bin-Laden had not left the compound, located about a kilometer from the Pakistani Military Academy, in five years. That means that Pakistani military forces are at best utterly incompetent, at worst in collusion with the Bin-Laden family, and in no sense pleased by the U.S. incursion into their country.
“I think it is a big blow to Pakistan's

sovereignty, Pakistan's independence and Pakistan's self-respect," said former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "Pakistan is in a grave crisis and is surrounded by big danger.”
One would think the assassination of this fearsome terrorist would at least make the United States less afraid of terrorism, but Obama has so far refused to make public any photos of the body, and allowed him to be buried at sea within 24 hours of the killing.
As a renewed wave of terror alert warnings sweeps the United States, perhaps this will give our citizens time to wonder what, exactly, we have accomplished. We’ve violated our own principles, made ourselves less safe, and damaged our diplomatic relations with the rest of the world, but at least we got to feel good about ourselves for a day. The next time U.S. troops perform clandestine actions on foreign soil, things may not go so well for us.