Osama.

Nothing has really changed and the spin continues.   The real wars are still being fought, and they are between American and American.

How do I feel? Relief that it has finally happened. No jubilation, no celebration, no fist pumps. No joy in Mudville.

Justice was not done. Partly because there ain't no justice, partly because if justice were done, how many of us and our leaders would be left standing?

Most interesting thing about Bin Laden was the interplay between him and our nation. The ways we enabled him, the ways he fed disease within us. A curious symbiosis. 

One wonders what will happen and how or if we will cope now he is gone. 

We need our villains, and if there are not enough to go around we must manufacture them.  Osama came along in a post Soviet Union vacuum, when the country needed a unifying object of fear and hate.  I think the hatred we have seen of conservatives for liberals, Republicans for Democrats, and vice versa, since 2004 was an indicator that the value of Osama as such an object was on the wane.  Will we turn on one another now with renewed anger?  That may be.