Osama Free Write

I think that it is a great thing that the US was finally able to find and kill Osama bin Laden.  His death marks vengeance for the United States about the attacks of September 11^th.  By killing him, we basically killed the leader of terrorism of these times, which is absolutely huge, but it also imposes new problems that we may or may not have to deal with, and leads us to many more questions.

For the United States, this event is obviously one to celebrate, but for Al Queda this event is much worse.  Their leader was killed, so now we must wonder who will come to power, and what direction he will lead them into, whether it be retaliation or a time to regroup.  We can’t really predict what they are feeling right now, but we can probably expect them to come back angry and try to retaliate in one form or another.  It is not clear what their intentions are, but I think that we need to prepare.

Another interesting topic about this event is the United States reaction to this.  When I first heard it, I was doing homework and decided to take a break and go on Facebook.  I was really surprised, because my whole news feed was full of statuses about how Osama was killed, and how everyone was proud to be American and stuff like that.  I went downstairs and turned my TV on and was shocked to see this.  At first I didn’t really know what to think because of the magnitude of the situation, but then I became very happy.  It was just nice to know that he was dead.  And then I saw videos of people celebrating, and it did strike to me as somewhat odd how everyone could be celebrating this much, just because of someones death.  And that is one of the interesting things about this story, how much this man affected our lives in the United States and how happy we were to see him dead.  It was just very interesting to see how we all unified.

Based on what we were talking about in class, I don’t really think that this will be a long-term unification for the United States.  It is great that we realized that as a unified country we were able to persevere and kill Osama, but our differences and bad habits are too great for us to completely forget about the problems within the country and solve them completely together.  This event was a great testament to the United States strength and determination, but to expect to be unified is too much too ask.  However, I think that this will be a huge morale boost for the United States, but it in no way will be able to unify us.

All in all, I think that it is amazing that we were finally able to kill Osama and that means a huge deal for us and the world, but we still have big questions and problems for the future ahead of us, and we must prepare and acknowledge these potential problems.