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If you only assasinate the head of state you're not
eliminating the state itself or its army. I don't find it surprising that some Americans view this death as some sort of victory because there's never really been much of a terrorist threat over there the way some other western countries experienced on a more regular basis, particularly in the 70s and the 80s. The mass hysteria that ensued with 9/11 was inevitable because of the amount of human lives lost and the ''one-offness'' nature of the episode. To many of those people chanting victory on the street today politics are easily digested when they are explained in a linear and uncomplicated way to follow.
More than pointing the finger at them in a judgemental way, I find it more worrying the fact that in the US there doesn't seem to be any other way, for the time being at least, to approach political protest with a more coherent theory/tactic which doesn't involve the sloganeering in bites of an ever so week left or the general extremism of thought that would only benefit a fascistic sci-fi scenario.
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