Does this mean that you can keep your shoes on in the airport now?
I'm glad he is dead but you have to ask yourself where does it all end. If you think it's when the "last one" is killed then you are kidding yourself. There is no winning this war. Ultimately, it boils down to this...is America/the rest of the world safer now or will someone else just step up and take his place? Every time you kill someone or torture someone, you are making them stronger. These guys are replaceable, there is no mastermind, someone else just takes his place.
This is what we should be asking ourselves. Why are there groups like Al Qaeda? Is our current Foreign Policy creating more terrorists? Why do they hate us so much?
And most importantly, is peace even a goal anymore?
I'm glad you asked that question. This is something we rarely asked after 9/11 happened.
To truly understand, you have to go back to 1953 Iranian coup d'état where out CIA overthrew the Iranians govt for their oil.
Even before 9/11 there possibly wasn't a year where we didn't bomb Iraq. Also in the 9/11 commission report, it was said that we had a military base in a area of Saudi Arabia that is consider Holy Land to them. I believe Ron Paul tried to explain this to the GOP in 2008 but they've spun it as "Ron Paul said the American people are to blame for 9/11" when he meant our foreign policy. Then they force us the story that they hate us because of our freedom.
This was in the time were everyone wanted to stay in Iraq for 8,10,12 more years, preemptive nuking Iran and what not. Seriously, Ron Paul has balls of steel as no politician dare drop the truth bomb on us on that stage. It was like hearing 11 people repeat the same thing but not him.
You can also listen to our enemies like Osama who put out a video out each week lol. It's on youtube, translated and you can listen to some of his reasons why they attacked us. Although I know people won't even consider this part. But it is critical to understanding their point of view to make a correct judgement. Just like in life, you hear both sides of the story, research it thoroughly and come to a conclusion.
This is why we need to revisit our foreign policy and learn the concept of "blow black". Actually, it's pretty simple, you punch me, im going to punch you back. Another easy example would be in the Mayweather fight where that dude headbutt Mayweather, then Mayweather sucker punch him back. It was cheap but he had it coming.
Another thing is we need to learn is that the middle east doesn't belong to us. Yes I know that is a hard concept to understand to everyone but that is not our land. It is like China deciding to invade us here, set up bases in our neighborhood and decide our rights means nothing to them. You damn for sure I'm going to fight back, just give me a gun. I don't care what the purpose they came here for or what there government calls me.
My thoughts is that we use our national defense" to actually be "defensive" :-D. Our military guard our borders, guard our sensitive facilities, and what have you.
But don't worry, no matter what anyone wants, all our troops are coming home. We're on the same path as the Soviet Union. "The Soviet economy was slowly becoming stagnant, whilst military spending went through the roof. ..and the Soviets threw more money at the military". Eventually they all had to come home, poor and broke. We will have to leave Iraq eventually and there is a possibly Al-Qaeda or whatever group will take control again. We can't hold out there forever and will depend on there people on what they want as a government. The lesson we should take out of this is how we handle Vietnam. We accomplished more in peace & trade then war.
Anyway there is a lot of research you can do on our foreign policy if you're interested. Some stuff will shock you so beware :-D. I'm to lazy to go through all that history.