WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

So today I was reading an article in True Love magazine and it was about the death of Osama Bin Laden, well being that I’m not American and I didn’t encounter the lose that some people did in the incident of 9/11. But I’m sure that as a South African and having only having freedom in our country 5 months before my birth I would say a lot of us had reason to rejoice in the death of our oppressors but we chose a different path, this is what the article about it’s about answering the question “Do we lose our humanity because of our brutal experiences?”. These are the exact words of Michael Moore ; “When I heard the news, I immediately felt great. I felt relief. I thought of those who lost a loved one on 9/11. I was thrilled that the Osama Bin Laden era was over. Being near Ground Zero that night, I decided to head over there and join the others who saw this event a chance of getting closure but before leaving I turned on the TV and what I witnessed was a frat boy-style party going on, complete the shaking and spraying of champagne bottles over the crowd. I completely understand people wanting to celebrate –like I said I too, was happy- but something didn’t feel right”. Americans pride themselves in the word of God, Jesus, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King the same way that we pride ourselves in the words of Nelson Mandela do you really think that those people would approve of the death of more than 5000 troops, thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan and also losing $1,2 trillion that could have bettered the country but it instead was used to hunt a person that after his death nothing changed. My intention isn’t to belittle what happened in 9/11 but it is to show the nation that allowed the Nazis to have a trial, the nation that is the head of the United Nations that they spent 12 million millions dollars in trying to find a person than rather insuring that the families that lost people during that incident felt that the country was with them but what happened was the same as the Prince of Scotland beheading Macbeth because he killed his father but this time Osama’s death was expected to give thousands of people closure which doesn’t make sense to me. Have we as humans lost our humanity that other man’s grief gives us pleasure. At the end of this publish I realised that this issue is debatable because even though as South Africans we chose to live in peace we are still living in fear of the fact of an  Afrikaner government ruling the country so I presume the only way that Americans felt safe in their own home was when Osama was killed but we also that Iraqis and Afghanistan natives experienced that feeling of not being safe at home because of the war Americans brought to them. Was there really a solution best fitting for everyone or was it just all up to who wins? Decisions that come out of situations like these make true legends.