Osama Bin Laden is Dead! Will Anything Change Now?
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The first of May brought celebration in many streets of America. The man who celebrated the deaths of almost 3000 people back on September 11, of the year 2000, was dead. Osama Bin Laden was killed. Killed by American soldiers about a week before the announcement was made, in Pakistan, living in a house, not a cave, as many of his tapes and pictures showed.
The news that many Americans and others have been waiting for such a long long time has come. Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces.
How ironic, that people were filling streets in many US cities, celebrating Bin Laden's death, just as he, his partners in crime, and many radical Muslims celebrated back on 911.
Lots of questions need to be answered. How did Bin Laden, who was living in a house, right under the noses of the Pakistani government, be there without the Pakistani governments knowledge? Were they working and helping the American forces? It is still to early to know.
Will this change anything on the war on terrorism? Will this be the cutting off the head of the terror monster that has been terrorizing and killing people around the world?
This will not stop any of the terrorism that continues to be happening around the world. The ugly little monsters of terror are still out there and they may try to step up some of their plots, but this is definitely going to slow down some of their stamina and resolve.
Al Qaeda has spawned off into other little monsters around the world and this war is not over, but it certainly has been hurt, not so much in the fact that Bin Laden is dead, but in the fact that the emotional and spiritual head of this movement, has been cut off.
One extremely important note to add here is that, this could not have come at a better time, when civil unrest and rioting in the streets of many Muslin cities and countries around the world against these leaders. Muslim people around the world, want change, and it is only as they stand up against these radical leaders and supporters of this ideology, that masks itself as true Islam, that any true peace and freedom, to the world and to the Muslim people, will ever occur.
It has been ten years since any attack has been executed on America, and now with the head of Al Qaeda being cut off, it might just be the beginning to an end of an era of hate and killing, by a group of individuals, that don't represent Islam, nor Muslims. In fact they killed more Muslims than they killed any infidels.
So what happens now? Do we ease up on our fight against terrorism? Do we go out after all of the other leaders, the other little Bin Ladens, that are still out there?
I think we keep the fight and maybe even turn the heat up. Attack them while they are reeling back a little on their heels, and finish the job that Bin Laden started when he declared war on the US.
What do you think about this news? How will this change anything?
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As good as this news is, it still is only the beginning. The fight goes on, but maybe the moderate Muslims will join in and help the cause.
Thank you HSchneider for taking the time to leave your comment.
Your article comes at a good time after almost ten years of grief, and trillions of dollars spent to find the most hated man in the universe, Osama Ben Ladin. If the Pakistan Military didn't know he was at their door, they must have a poor military. They aren't checking on the people in Pakistan or what. You never know about the US Intelligence, they are a special breed and highly trained to detect and win!
There are a lot of things that we don't know about, but were getting more information as it comes out. Thank you Nan for your comment.
God Bless America! I'm anxious about the future now that Osama Bin Laden is dead, but no more so than when he was alive. I never thought I would be celebrating the death of another human being. The signs of the times.
I am concerned: I think that violence can generate only violence.
In any case I do not think that his dead can significantly change a mentality built in many years and generations. Maybe the most intelligent thing to do is start to wonder on what we have wrong, now and in the past.
Thanks for this thought-provoking page.
Fucsia
I think cutting the head off of this beast is like cutting off the head of a Hydra. It will just grow more. Unfortunately this isn't over, not by a long shot.
Thanks
Chuck
I know what you mean Terri, just doesn't seem right celebrating a death but when you see that this could be the start of making everyone safer and maybe a start to eradicating this evil regime from off the face of the earth.
Thank you Terri for your comment
I think there are a lot of people in Al Quada scouring for cover right now. They have also obtained a lot of information from computers and such that were in this compound. I think you will start to see others getting arrested or killed, but you do have a good point Fucsia. I don't think any of this will eradicate an ideology that has been ingrained into these people's head from birth.
Thank you Fucsia for that point.
You got that right poorconservative1. This is not even close to being over.
Excellent hub, Brian. It was a great symbolic victory and the U.S. sorely needed something uniting, but the fight goes on. Quite possibly, we must be more vigilant than ever.
With the information they have now, maybe we could see many more Al Quada leaders going down and hopefully we might see the beginning of the end of all these terrorist attacks?
Thanks Fay
HSchneider Level 6 Commenter 12 months ago
Great Hub Brian. This was a tremendous symbolic victory but the fight will go on. You are right there are many of these groups all around the world. You are also correct that the timing is excellent and hopefully it will have a very salutory effect on the rebelling citizens of the Middle East. I believe it will be best if President Obama continues to support these peoples demands for human rights and freedom. It started with his June 2009 Cairo speech and must continue. Hopefully we will have peace with the Muslim world at some point.