Obama's short announcement on Bin Laden's death was appropriate-short, grave, patriotic...but NOT celebratory. I find myself deeply disillusioned and disturbed by all the footage on TV of people cheering "USA! USA!" and throwing around beach balls (?!) and apparently also high-fiving each other (NYT front page right now). When I first figured out what had happened, my gut reaction was NOT happy celebration. Yes I understand what this event means symbolically for the United States and no I do not undermine all the different "victories" that it represents. But watching people's reactions is sickeningly reminding me of the footage there was on TV back in 9/11 of people cheering on the exploded twin towers. So is this what humanity's literally come to? Cheering on death as victory? Sadly, it makes us no better than them.