The dancing in the streets reminds me of when a soldier is captured and we see some clowns celebrating in the streets.  Different I know, but still offensive to me.  Celebrating death is sick, no matter the person.  I wish the media had enough tact to stop broadcasting it.

This isn't justice, justice is making a person answer for their crimes, and 10 mins gunfight is enough.  Death absolves him from the shame of the trial and solitude of imprisonment.  Hussein is the perfect example, the mighty man found in hole and made to answer/defend himself in court, for the world to witness.

It really p*** me off that he was been hold-up in a million dollar home and not trekking through the mountaisn hiding in caves, as reported.  He lived a life of luxury with his wife(s) and the only suffering he endured was a 10 min gun battle before his death.

I am glad the body wasn't brought back for public viewing, smart move burying him at sea after confirmation.  They also took DNA.

Going forward.  I disagree with Anne on this point, well it may not be over, it's going to take a long time, if ever, to replace Bid Laden.  I don't know how charismatic he was, but he was definitely the money man.  Plus it seems like we have killed and/or captured the number 2,3,& 4 guys enough times that there upper management has to be filled with some pretty inexperienced people.  How this will effect recruiting, who knows.

Ultimately, he didn't reach his goal, but he did make a lot of progress.  I propose the US officially call body scanners and pat-downs, Bin Ladens, so Americans can understand how he has changed the US and hopefully pull their scared heads out of their A's and bury them at sea with their inspiration.

But jurisdiction via kidnapping is highly questionable.

Killing bin Laden was an act of war.  War is always ugly.  

They'll probably spin this as a Stalinist power play on the part of Obama to neutralize the  competition in the race to establish Sharia Law in the U.S.

Obama, in what I thought at the time the most biting criticism of Trump that night, went on and on about how Trump was making monumental decisions on Celebrity Apprentice...about firing  Gary Bussey.....

When Obama had said that, he had just given the order to launch the raid.  He could not have known if the raid was going to be successful.  The disasters in Somalia and the botched attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages come to mind.  To drop two helicopters into the middle of large city, some 2 miles away from the Pakistani equivalent of West Point, and to bring our guys back safe and sound.....

I swear, Trump was the biggest clown of a whole host of clowns we've seen pop up on the right over the last few decades.

The one comment he made that stood out for me was that he was glad this wasn't the result of a bombing raid.  Why?  Because an attack from the ground, in person, meant that in the time between our forces attacking the compound, and bin Laden's actual death, he might have experienced the kind of fear that he, in directing the events of 9/11, had inflicted on all of those who died that day, and that those who survived still struggle with.  That, for this particular soldier, was where the real justice lay, not necessarily in the killing itself.

I don't agree with the dancing in the streets, I think the infliction of that kind of fear is considered to be torture, and I would much rather bin Laden had been captured alive, but I completely get what this young man was expressing.

Obama had the choice to make, in terms of the whole operation, whether to go for it or not.  In a rare example of gutsy leadership, he went for it, not knowing whether it would succeed or fail.  

His team succeeded at killing bin Laden, but it remains to be seen whether this event will have entirely positive repercussions; I think it's worth noting that after the initial positive reaction on Wall Street, economic news eventually pushed it off the radar, and the market dropped.  If that doesn't tell you something about the big picture, I don't know what would.

At the time Obama's original comments were made, it was a clear pander to the hawks - the kind who don't care how something is done, just that it is done.  And while I don't accuse you of being a hawk, I do think you fall into the category of someone who doesn't seem to care about the means, just the end.  Some of us actually care about the means, too, and feel that elevating what I believe will eventually be seen to be an assassination to the level of "justice" cheapens  the meaning of the word.

And yes, I am aware that Hillary is a hawk, too, so don't think I'm sitting here under any illusions that she would have done anything differently; I can assure you that I would not be pleased at the "justice was done" assessment, nor would I be pleased that assassinating bin Laden has now been elevated to being an example of America's "can-do" spirit.

In the grand scheme of things, I don't think this will matter nearly as much as some people think it will, but sure, go ahead and check it off the Big List of Things to Accomplish.

As promises go, I think it was an easy one to make; a lot of people have been working for a long time to get to this point, so the odds were that sooner or later, Osama's ticket was going to be punched.

Bin Laden was the military leader of an enemy force.....He was not head of state.