Osama is dead. The damage he (and we) did lives on and we can hardly step beyond our front doors without seeing it. This Front Porch Republic piece by Russell Arben Fox says it better than I can:
But what I didn’t realize until much later was that the pre-occupation we had with that threat was itself a perhaps even deeper threat to the American way of life…a way that, whatever else we all disagree upon, really shouldn’tbe a life conditioned by endless low-level wars, and the costly divides in American life they give rise to. We did that to ourselves, but Osama gave us the pretext for doing so, and for that, I guess he deserved what he finally,finally, got. If only I could believe that a well-executed firefight could rid us of all the civic and international damage he has left in his wake. - FPR
A new threat, a new attack, a new counter measure, less freedom, and no more safety. These prospects among other things keep me from anything like a celebratory mood.
(Brad)