Osama bin laden

I am not American, lets get that out of the way, but I remember 9/11, I was quite young but I still remember it. In fact I was 9 years old at the time and remember the buildings coming down and the sudden lump in my throat when I realized i had just watched the deaths of thousands of people. Then i remember the Anger, as millions of people rose up and demanded bloodshed in return, they called for the deaths of the perpetrators and everybody involved, and what did it lead to? A war which has been going on for a decade now, nearly 5000 American soldiers dead and absolutely nothing to show for it except a bigger military budget and most recently, the successful assassination of Osama Bin Laden.

Now, call me crazy, defend your ridiculous "Operation Enduring Freedom" (Haha!) all you want, but somehow I fail to see how this old, most probably senile man, could have been the US's biggest security risk at the present time. Since 9/11 we bolstered our airports, beefed up our security and put walls in place to make sure that nothing of the magnitude of that day could happen again. Our biggest security alert is now internal. Here in the UK, you hear every other day of suspected terrorists being brought in, or barely being caught in time. It is only a matter of time before a sophisticated internal unit has a good plan, and the government doesn't catch on quick enough.

But to say that his death was a complete waste of time would be a lie. His death is symbolic, it kind of says to the people "Good prevails, Evil will pay!" and even I gave a little fist pump and thought that just maybe the war was coming to some sort of end. Alas, how naive, War is money, and to end such a lucrative war would be both anti-productive to the US as well as create an even larger unemployment line. Though I bet there will be another problem which the US will stick thier noses into when they don't need to ( A la Vietnam and Libya).

Which brings me to safety, and whether the world is safer without good ol' Osama and his plans to destroy the world. Personally, I don't think so, the fact of the matter is that the moment on person is taken out of power another takes his place. The War we are fighting is self destructive. In an ideal society the world would all just get along, but the fact of the matter is we don't. We are all subject to the primal urges of human nature such as jealousy and greed. Osama bin Laden represented what was wrong with this world, and now he is gone, the rest of his followers will drift off into animosity.

Tell me what you think in a comment below, is the world a safer place with out Bin Laden?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13485267