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.