Sure, I'll admit I'm very pleased. This may be one time I would have favored them being locked away, deprived of everything they have become accustomed to-with some guy named BUBBA! HOWEVER, with those guys in prison, a perfect hostage situation...demand for exchange of prisoners would have existed. Now, that's one less worry with them dead. I think too it would be foolish to assume there won't be any retaliation. Maybe there won't, BUT...
Whatever will be, is most likely already in a near execution stage.
With our boarders being penetrated and our ports' past history of having less than 2% of the cargo inspected, I think we ALL should live each day to the fullest and lose the thought that "IT" couldn't happen again.
http://hollings.senate.gov/~hollings...002620425.html
Most Americans would be surprised to discover there is no unified federal plan for overseeing the security of the international borders at our seaports. And that's what seaports are: international borders that must be protected as well as our land borders with Canada and Mexico.
The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs Service are doing an outstanding job, but they are outgunned. In the year 2000, we imported 5.5 million trailer truckloads of cargo. Due to that volume, the U.S. Customs Service is only able to inspect between 1 to 2 percent of containers. In other words, potential terrorists and drug smugglers have a 98 percent chance of randomly importing illegal and dangerous materials.