I'm glad OBL is dead, I think he got what he deserves. However, I don't think the celebration on the streets and the U-S-A chants are appropriate. The reality is that most of those people on the street are uneducated people that have no clue of what's going on. All they know is that 10 years ago there was 9/11, since then they've been looking for OSB cause he needs to pay, that "american" soldiers died in Afghanistan and Irak and that the US being the most powerful country in the world accomplished its mission.
Yes, 9/11 was horrible, yes they should have gone after OSB, yes 3000+ US citizens died that day by the hand of Al Qaeda, but what people seem to easily forget is that it took the US 10 years to find him, destroyed 2 countries in the meantime and how many innocent men, women and child died by their hand in the process, thousands! The thing that bothers me is that the US only counts the casualties that they suffer, for the rest, I guess sh*t happens (CNN is a very good example of that).
I mean, they were right going to Afghanistan to look for him but not to completely destroy everything and leave the people worst than what they were before. A couple of years later, they can't find him, the people start asking questions so what do they do, they take their eyes off the objective and distract people's mind by giving them a new enemy, Sadam and his weapons of mass destruction. When they couldn't find them, to not look stupid, they say that they went to free the people (how cliche is that!), meanwhile another country is destroyed and 8 years later, the people is not in a better situation than it was before, just different people being oppressed by different oppressors. Throughout history, many countries had their revolutions without nobody's help, that's just the way it is supposed to be, Iraq would have overthrown their government in their own time, just like many countries did. Who is the US to decide who should be free and when? I guess if Iraq would grow carrots instead of oil the Iraqi people would still be oppressed. Why doesn't the US decided to go free the people from North Korea, it's not like they are in any better situation that the people from Iraq...
All of this to say that yes, I believe that OBL got what he deserved but this celebration by these people that are basically celebrating their ignorance and reassuring themselves that they're living in a country made of good that vanquished evil is just wrong. This reinforces the typical american stereotype same as comments like these:
Tonight is our night to celebrate. Evil has been dealt a blow.
Our celebrations are an expression of joy for the triumph of good over evil.
I mean, this looks like it has been taken from a Hollywood movie!
So yes, 9/11 was horrible, but celebration is not appropriate when the US's quest for justice has cost thousands of innocent lives and for me, an innocent child is an innocent child no matter its nationality.
I'm no expert in war or history, this is just my opinion on the whole thing.
