The Wicked Witch is dead

I woke up this morning to my housemate telling me "Did you hear? Osama has been killed!". As I had only just woken up, it took a while before it sank in. I logged on to facebook and lo and behold, everyone was of course talking about it. I skipped through the fairly neutral statuses of most Europeans until I hit the jackpot: an American friend of mine who had posted six statuses in about half an hour, all rejoicing about how Osama had been killed, what a triumph, how she was drinking champagne in a American-flag-printed t-shirt while chanting U-S-A! and how she felt America must now feel how Munchkinland felt when they announced that "the Witch is dead".

I felt sick.

Does America really think that by killing Osama, terrorism is all of a sudden going to disappear from this world? Kill the frontman, kill the network? Because the last few years must have shown them that it isn't just Osama saying "oh, let's fly in those towers", making one executive decision, and boom, the whole world changes. In the real world, evil isn't simply rooted out by taking out the frontman.

I see it this way: Either killing Osama has no effect whatsoever, as he is merely a frontman and there are more than enough other to take his place, or killing Osama has a massive impact, as he is the leader, and terror attacks on the US will only get worse. Revenge is a bitch, right?

Either way, whatever the US were trying to accomplish by this (A power vacuum that leaves Al Quaida in shambles? A magic fix to all evil in the world?), the only thing that will come from this is a positive election result from Obama. Cos no matter how much the Americans might have hated Obama in the last couple of years, nothing can touch him now, cos hey, the With is dead.