Osama Bin Laden is Dead the World Still at War

It has been a little over ten years since the crowning achievement of a hate filled Osama bin Laden changed the face of civilization. On September 11, 2001 Osama bin Laden's handpicked terror strike force hijacked four jetliners and killed almost 3,000 innocent people in an attack of brutal savagery that spared no gender, age, race, religion or political orientation. On May 1, 2011 the President of the United States announced to a nation still haunted by that horrific act that Osama bin Laden is dead.

We received the news of his death at the hands of elite American Forces with feelings that are hard to put into words. First we feel a certain sense of justifiable pride in our men and women who fought wars and kept up the pressure until justice was accomplished.

Secondly we feel sadness for the many lives lost in the atrocities he engineered and carried out and we also feel sadness for a world that has changed from seeking a progressively civilized existence to one that has made an about face and now struggles to maintain pockets of relative safety from radically un-civilized and rabidly hate filled criminals.

Osama bin Laden is dead but the movement he spawned continues and even now spawns its own offshoots to continue the hellish chaos. The face of our civilization has changed from seeking tolerance to self defensive distrust.

The civilizations of the world struggle as they have since the beginning of time but with greater hate, anger, vileness and inhumanity spread about in heaving political turmoil from every corner of the globe.

Reaction in the city of Yakima, Washington in the United States was mixed. All I talked to expressed satisfaction that Osama bin Laden had met his fate at the hands of American forces. It seemed fitting to all that the promise has been kept. "You can run but you can't hide" has been a long time coming to completion but the meticulous work of many people has made it so.

One man, a devout Catholic lay person, said "it seems somehow wrong to feel glad that any person is dead, but in this case it seems justified".

A woman we talked to replied, "yes, justified, and yet this does not stop what he started. The whole world is at war and most of it has to do with the violent fanatic fringe. The Islamic Jihad will continue and the fundamentalist fanatic so called "Christians" will keep provoking them. "

All agreed that though Osama bin Laden is dead the world is still at war.