Is the World a Better Place Because Osama Bin Ladin is Dead?: The Rebirth of Hope and Change

I think it's naive to believe the world is a better place all because Osama Bin Ladin is dead, like TVNZ writes. In an editorial that makes Obama look like a leader in this matter, we forget that he wanted to pull out of Afghanistan--labeling at as a failure many times.

You know, I have lived in the United States all my life, and it doesn't matter what era we live in, there is always a bad guy that we use to justify our outrageous military budget that is drowning this country in debt. It totals almost 50% of every dollar spent in the world on military spending, and it always comes complete with a boogey man that must be extinguished.

We celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Soviet Union as the Cold War drew to an end as we should have. The world was supposed to be a better place, but it didn't take long for a new enemy to take the place of the Soviet Union. I am sure in the coming weeks, the new face of Osama Bin Ladin's successor will show, and whoever that is, revenge in the name of Osama Bin Ladin will turn focus on the next stage in the war against Al Qaeda. Yes, Osama Bin Ladin's death, if he is truly dead, is a moral victory, but it is nothing more than that.

There will be the new bad guy introduced to the American public. It's been a non-stop cycle for many decades now since Adolf Hitler. With that said, any gains that made the world a better place will soon be reversed by who ever the next in line is.

Without a doubt, this positive rhetoric, which didn't meet this level of hysteria when Saddam Hussein was captured, another vicious enemy of the United States who engaged in genocide, is all for Obama's reelection efforts. This is the rebirth of Hope and Change. Make no doubt about that. Obama launched his campaign just a few weeks ago, and with the announcement that Osama is dead, hope and change is alive again. Just look to Ground Zero, which celebrates with no evidence of a body since the United States chose not to bring the body back to the States, but released it to the sea so nobody could find the evidence of Osama Bin Ladin's death.