If anything, this is going to turn out worse than what it has ever been. In the short-term, yes, the death of Bin Laden is great, a slight American victory. But, in the long-term, it's going to end up like this, terrorist - "Not only are we just going to elect a new leader, but we're going to hit you even harder (if not start a war on your soil)." This is going to come back and hit us in the balls harder than we've ever planned for.