I just watched Fox news.

    Ok. Don't yell at me for 'old news', I write as quickly as I can, but I'm human. There is a limit to how fast I can churn out a decent length post. Ok, for anyone who hasn't yet heard (hello from Planet Earth, btw), Osama Bin Laden (Or if you watch Fox News(WHY!?!?!), Usama Bin Laden) has been killed by US forces. I'm not writing this to inform you of that, I'd be a little late. Nor am I writing to point out how terribly Fox failed, even though that could be a full post in itself (Or possibly a full length novel). I am writing this to give MY perspective on this. Not what happened. Not what I have heard. What I see here. If you disagree, feel free to comment. I might even read it (if it is well written, intelligent, and not "ZOMG UR A RETARD").
   Ok, my perspective. The way I see it, the point of terrorism is to cause terror. Terrorists have nothing against airplanes, buildings, or public transportation. All they want is to scare us.  They don't want to let us think that we can make them stop by killing high-up members of their organization. If we thought that, we would just keep killing them. If they killed Obama, what would we do? We would seek revenge on them. So immediately we would assume that their revenge will target us. This is completely incorrect. You have to see how they think. They see everyone that is not one of them as the enemy. They will blame the rest of the world for the death of their leader. Why would they attack the United States when they know that that is what we expect? We are scaring ourselves here if we expect an attack here, doing their job for them. What would strike fear into the whole world is attacking another major world power, out of nowhere. (Yes, America, there are other world powers.) If you consider the G8 summit as an official measure of power, then you have:

• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Russia
• United Kingdom
• United States

Now, United States was already eliminated for possible attack. That leaves 7. Speaking as a former resident of the UK, I would say that the government and private businesses are far too paranoid there for anything to happen. So. Down to 6. Now that security has been taken care of, the issue is now the attractiveness as a target. i.e. how massive the impact of what they do will be. Well, there go Canada and Russia. Despite the fact that Russia supplies most of Europe with oil, that would not have the same spectacle as ramming a plane into the World Trade Center in New York. The four remaining targets are all plausible. Personally, I predict an attack on either France or Japan. Thats just me.

The next thing I'm about to say will seem pretty obvious. They don't care about death. Their own, or those around them. Bin Laden loved the fight (If you question how I know this, he used to be a part of a CIA anti-terrorism squad, this is from an American), and would happily have blown himself to tiny pieces if it killed a few "infidels". Despite the fact that no Americans died on the mission, Osama would be happy to hear in his afterlife filled with forty ex-virgins that his death caused Al Qaeda to launch attacks all over the world, resulting in mass loss of life.

 Basically, we achieved the death of a few terrorists. Leave it a few months, then let me know if it was worth the effort.