Osams's Dead

Ten years after the attack on the World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden is dead. Sure the US Military and government considers this a huge victory, but is it really? What has the world really gained with his death? The War on Terror has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. There are many more children left without parents, parents left without their children than when the war started. Afghanistan and Iraq have been thrown into turmoil. The Taliban is poised to retake Afghanistan as soon as America withdraws and Iraq is years away from full recovery. In addition to the human toll, countless billions have been spent on this war, billions that could've been used on schools and on the people in need in our country. How much is one man worth? Al Qaeda may have lost it's leader but it gained a martyr. The war is not over, the body count continues to mount, and Osama's death does not change any of that. He's just another casualty in our decade long war against an idea.