The Situation Room

Can I just express how intense this picture is? The Situation room holds the few that knew about the spring on Osama bin Laden, and here, they wait to here how the Navy SEALS carried out there job. Awesome.

Final Thoughts by Michael Moore:

This is what Moore had to say on his Twitter:

" I want to point out that Barack Obama took two years to do what Bush couldn't do in over seven. That's the difference between STUPID in charge and SMART in charge. STUPID pursues two reckless wars, lets OBL escape from Tora Bora, keeps looking for him in caves and invades the wrong country. He bankrupts us to the tune of $1.2 trillion for the Iraq War (it will eventually actually be over $3 trillion), and worse, he cost us the lives of almost 5,000 of our troops, not to mention hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan – and, after all that, he STILL couldn't bring the perp to justice. In fact, in 2005, Bush closed down the CIA station that was devoted to looking for bin Laden! What does SMART do? He sends in a small elite strike force, no troops are killed, and the perpetrator is stopped for good."

Michael Moore has pointed out that it's true Obama did what Bush certainly couldn't do. This is certainly an advantage to Obama for his upcoming 2012 campaign. But as for other subjects such as healthcare and the trillion dollar deficit, well, that's another story. Let's hope Obama can succeed in these like he has on the war. I have an immense amount of hope in Obama, and I feel like he really hasn't done what he could do. Let's just hope this will change.

Osama bin Laden is dead... now what?

Back to the question, what will now happen politically, economically, and internationally now that Osama bin Laden is dead? We should first focus on al Qaeda and it's intentions. From the looks of it, we will continue to have a war with al Qaeda, whether bin Laden is dead or alive. He was the founder, and a great leader, but was not the main coordinator for al Qaeda. In recent years, bin Laden is thought to have had little control of the group he founded. Instead, much of the original group's core operations are through to have been run by Ayman al-Zawahri, who is also thought to be hiding in Pakistan.  There are numerous leaders now, that will take the reigns and almost certainly continue a war with the United States. That is, as long as the U.S. remains in the Middle East. By the end of July, President Obama is said to be pulling and unknown amount of the soldiers out of Afganistan. It's definitely a start, and people (especially some of the ignorant all out Americans) need to realize that there cannot be an immediate withdraw of all U.S. conventional forces from the Middle East now that bin Laden is dead. We will, and will probably always be at war with Islamic terrorists, but does that mean we will continue to stay where we are not welcome? Continue war with al-Qaeda as long as they exist? No, we can't, and Obama as well as the rest of the world, knows we can't.

Robert H. Reid: Huffington Post on American involvement.

"Al-Qaida's attacks in the U.S. on 9-11 plunged America into war – first in Afghanistan where the terror movement was headquartered and later in Iraq, which President George W. Bush described as the "central front in the war on terror." Ironically, however, the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is expected to have little immediate effect on either conflict.
The war in Iraq, which cost more than 4,450 American lives, was winding down long before elite Navy SEALs gunned down bin Laden in his Pakistan hideout. Unless the Iraqi government changes its mind and asks the Americans to stay longer, the last 50,000 U.S. troops will be gone by the end of this year. Even if they stay, the U.S. role has changed from active combat to training and supporting the Iraqi armed force, which still faces diminished threat from al-Qaida and other insurgent groups, some of which are backed by Iran."

Yes! Let's agree that this is not a war we want to be in. An excellent strategy would be for immense support of the Iraqi armed forces, to train them and to have them as a strong ally with NATO and U.S. forces. This is what American forces need to do: Implementing SOFT POWER! Matter is all in the mind, but in a religious cult such as al-Qaeda, where there religious views are seen as absolute truth, this breaking of there psychological mindset is proven to be a challenge.

What will happen now Osama bin Laden is dead...

I am so glad that I am alive for a special moment in history like this. I don't take great pride as an American, nor glorify bin Laden's brutal downfall, but because this epic historic moment will lead to branches of ideas and opinions from the politcal and international world. It all goes back to why we are in war in the first place, because of bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda. What will happen now? Will we pull troops out? Will we always be at war with al Qaeda?

So many questions to answer, but we must wait to gather more opinions.

But first to address the ignorance of people with Obama taking credit for the death of Osama bin Laden. In his speech on May 1, 2011, he was briefed a couple weeks back about the whereabouts of bin Laden, that he was hiding in a mansion 40 miles outside the capital of Pakistan. The Navy Seals involved were under a  covert operation and keeping close watch on the mansion. After weeks of briefing, they Seals found the perfect opportunity to capture and kill bin Laden: Operation Geronimo. As a commander-of-chief, President Obama gave the go ahead to kill bin Laden. He took no more credit than that, and as the commander-of-chief, he did his job, just like any president would. Let me repeat, as the commander-of-chief of all U.S. conventional armies, President Obama did his job.

Will write later..