Thoughts on the killing of Bin Laden

At first I was very excited by the news of the demise of Osama Bin Laden but then I began to think about the cost.  First there is the economic costs.  The Republicans preach about the deficit but one of the major causes of it is the "war on terrorism."  We are spending billions in Afghanistan and Iraq (which was not a source of terrorist activity).  Was Osama worth the economic cost?  We are spending billions in a country that is home to 100 al Queda operatives.  Second there is the cost is American life.  1500 Americans have died in Afghanistan.  I do not think there sacrifice was worth it.  Third there is cost of American values.  To fight terrorists Bush told us we needed to give up certain civil liberties, habeus corpus, unwarranted wiretaps, unreasonable search and seizure and unlawful detention. Lastly there was the cost to American prestige.  The wars in Iraq was the first time that America invaded a country that had not attacked us.  Since 911 we have become a diminished nation.