What is your reaction to the death of Osama bin Laden?

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My complaint is this was too close to beheading him live on the internet.

If he had any defense he would have noticed two choppers, one crashing, people downstairs being shot, and thought something was up.

While his family was left, all of his guards were killed or captured, and he could have well been a captive of the Pakistanis. If not a total captive, a guest who could not leave.

He was not the main target, it was taking a high value item from the Pakistanis. They have been playing both sides. We have paid them billions, and get double dealing.

International power plays get messy. The war in Afganistan has been profitable, they would keep it going, we want out.

The main export of Afganistan is Opium, worth more than oil, in money and power. The Taliban stopped production, then we invaded. Production is now higher than ever.

Our man in Kabul will keep production up, The Northern tribes, where the Taliban who have been supported by Pakistan are Pashtun, same as the Pakistanis, and most Afganis. Ending Opium production in Afganistan opens the market to Pakistan.

After driving out the Russians the Northern Alliance lost power to the Pashtun majority, and they had a decade of peace. The American invasion put them back in power, and a decade of dirty war.

AQ and OBL were used to deflect the blame from the Pashtun. It also gave them international reach and power that the Pakistani government lacked, and it was cheap and self funding. It is the Arabic speaking front.

One death changes nothing.

Al Qaeda have confirmed Osama Bin Laden is dead and they have announced Osama Bin Laden's death will not be in vain.
This is bad news for the world, the terrorists now have a martyr to strengthen their cause. Osama Bin Laden's life and death will be used as propaganda to recruit more terrorists to fight the terrorists war against the West.
Taliban and Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalists want to avenge the death of their fallen hero, Osama Bin Laden.

If life was like a Hollywood movie the death of Osama Bin Laden would be the end of the Global War on Terror. Mass cheering of the American people- check. The end credits would be rolling just like a movie.

The Taliban, who deals in opium, has different goals than Al Qaeda, who actually attacked us in 9/11. It's just that the Taliban were hosts of Bin Laden and company.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I had to vote "other" because several of the answers would have been correct. Although the death of a person is tragic, the thousands of deaths caused by him is even more tragic, and his death needed to happen. I am glad he is gone, but I don't feel it is morally right to celebrate the fact.

I'm not American, I am indifferent to it. I don't care though, I'm not sad. He killed a lot of people.

My sister and her boyfriend think it's in bad taste that people are celebrating the death of a human. They are extremely left winged though, I am middle right.

I am still convinced they knew where he was for quite some time. I mean really he was next to a military base in a big house for the last 5 years the election is coming next year and Obama's ratings were lower than bush's, 10th aniversery of 9/11 coming up, trump was whooping up on Obama...I mean really. How hard is it to hide a 6'6 or so arab guy with long grey and black beard dressed like the shiek of war.