Reply #32: Solemn contentment, pride in the administration's leadership.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I would not be out there celebrating in jubliation on the streets. But nonetheless I do think this was a positive accomplishment.

A horrible man, responsible for the death of thousands, is dead. It appeared that his intention was to fight to the death and not be captured alive, and from the accounts I've heard, that is how it played out. I would have preferred capturing him alive and putting him on trial, a real trial subject to American jurisprudence, because that is what America should be all about.

Still, I just cannot find myself being jubilant at any human being's death, even a horrible one as that. So while I believe yesterday's news was welcome, it is a restrained celebration on my part.

What pleases me most is not that Bin Laden is dead, but the pride I do have in my President. It is clear from early in the presidency he made it a priority to refocus on the capture or killing of Bin Laden where the past administration had long given up. And he absolutely deserves credit for that.