I find it disgusting to see pictures like these (
http://www.ndtv.com/news/images/stor...ecentre295.jpg) in the wake of all of this. I've even seen "Osama Bin Laden is Dead" pub crawls (complete with t-shirts) in my face book thread. This changes nothing. It removes Obama's original justification for continuing the war on terror, but I'm positive that the the war on terror will continue anyway. The very fact that Americans are celebrating this kind of thing only proves that the initial causes of September 11th are completely unknown to them. For these people, 9/11 happened "because they hate us", overlooking the decades of unwarranted presence the US has had in the Middle East, both economically and militarily. People taking to the streets, reveling in an event that WILL NOT change their day-to-day life, is only a symbol to the rest of the world that US aggression is truly mutual; the people of the US back the occupation that compromises these nation's to achieve a real democracy.
It's another reminder that any faith I have in the American public is unwarranted. My little bubble of optimism has popped once again.