Osama Bin Laden

                As we all know on May 2, 2011 Osama Bin Laden was killed by an elite group of United States Navy Seals in a small compound in Pakistan. Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of over two thousand Americans along with hundreds of other deaths around the world. Osama Bin Laden started his life as a rich Saudi Arabian and ended it living on the top two floors of a compound that had no electricity and no running water. After the United States invaded Afghanistan and targeted Al- Qaeda Osama Bin Laden moved to the top of the FBI’s most wanted list which meant that the United States was using all of its possible resources to locate him. Since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 Americans have been looking for Justice, we thought that justice was found when we overthrew and killed Sadaam Hussein but soon realized that Iraq and Hussein had little to do with the 9/11 attacks. The real victory for Americans came on May 3^rd when President Obama stated that Navy Seals had killed Osama Bin Laden in a foreign country that we had no clearance to be in. The killing of Osama Bin Laden showed the world that America is a powerful nation and terrorists who seek to harm its citizens or way of life will be brought to justice no matter what the cost.

                Was the killing of Osama Bin Laden however the best possible thing for America at this time, almost eleven years after the attacks on 9/11. In my opinion the killing of Bin Laden is definitely going to trigger a chain of events all throughout the world. Whether those events will be good or bad only time will tell. I believe that the killing will spark one of three possible events, one being that Al- Qaeda will be disbanded and cease to exist and the world will sleep a little better at night. That however is a long shot and most likely will not happen. The next possibility is that because Al- Qaeda leader was killed they will become weak and then it will make it easier for the United States to eliminate the group all together. The final possibility that I believe may happen is that the next person who takes control of Al- Qaeda will feel like he has something to prove and will want to make a name for himself by planning and executing attacks throughout the world. This would mean that the killing of Bin Laden only caused more bloodshed which is one thing that the world does not need anymore of.