Osama bin Laden's death

NY Times article on the mission to kill Bin Laden

Upon hearing the news of Osama bin Laden's death, I didn't feel any stirrings for a desires to celebrate the event, nevermind chanting "USA". If there is any sweetness, the bitterness of this 'victory' overwhelms it. There is no satisfaction, because that would only allow this man to matter more than the lives lost on September 11, 2001.

I spent my time mourning the loss of innocent lives rather than celebrating the death of a madman. Afterall, his death won't likely not diminish the chances of another attack, nor will it afford us the opportunity to bring our military personnel home, away from the toils of combat any sooner.

On September 11, 2001, I watched, in shock, the attacks on the World Trade Center unfold through my living room and bedroom windows which had unfettered views of the towers a few hundred yards away. I grimaced as bodies fell from the north tower raging like a monolithic pyre. Some of those bodies seemed to be alive, as I imagine that some might have taken their own lives after watching the south tower collapse just minutes earlier.

I found it compelling and reassuring that our government, in planning an assault to kill or capture the most wanted man, had taken the time to decide how his body would be laid to rest. I wondered if Al Qaeda ever made such considerations when planning one of their deadly attacks. I don't imagine they did. Even in planning out our most violent acts where the safety of our own people is supreme, our leaders took the time to pay respect to the religious beliefs of this man who so hated our way of life that he sent 19 men thousands of miles for the sole purpose of committing mass-murder.

It makes me wonder, how can they call Americans the infidels, the barbarians when they defile their own morality to sate their lust for hate?