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Garth McLennan
Editor in Chief
hen news broke that Osama bin-
Laden had finally been located,
apprehended and eventually
killed, to say the least I was stunned. It
was one of those surreal moments where
something that the Western world has
collectively waited so long for, that when
it finally happened, I wasn’t sure what the
feeling that was washing over me exactly
was. Relief? Happiness? Uncertainty?
Whatever it was, it was a good feeling, but
a strange one nonetheless.

For most students here at Douglas
College, we’re old enough to remember
September 11, 2001. We’re old enough to
remember the unprecedented manhunt for
bin Laden that followed that horrible day
and we’re old enough to remember the
seemingly endless intelligence snippets
that were periodically released or leaked
to the media, all of them claiming that
the whereabouts of al-Qaeda’s infamous
founder were being narrowed down, and
that the United States was closing in on
him.

As the years went by and the national
consciousness shifted onto other matters,
not because of forgetting what happened
in September almost ten years ago (God,
has it been that long?) but simply moving

 

Is this a moment we’ll remember?

on to a certain degree, bin Laden drifted:
away from the forefront of our minds. He
surfaced every now and again after the
release of one of his increasingly insane
videos but the combination of living in
the information age, where there is a

new “breaking” story every day and the
attention span of the general public grows
ever shorter, and the simple passage of time
put bin Laden and the hunt for him in the
background in the last several years.

So after all this time, what exactly
is the appropriate feeling now that the
greatest and most recognizable terrorist
of modern times has died? I think that the
death of bin Laden signifies an important
and symbolic step in the war to purge the
world of terrorism, but at the same time it
also symbolises just how far we have to go.
It took ten years, a long ten years, for the
incredible might of the American military
machine to find and bring bin Laden to
justice. In that decade there has been a
string of terrifying incidents all across the
globe, some successful and some not, that
should serve as a chilling reminder that
terrorism, in so many forms, it still a large
and very real part of our lives.

Killing bin Laden is a prominent sign
that we as a society are well on the way to
eventually breaking the backs of terrorist
organizations around the world, but when
put into perspective of just how long ago
9/11 really was, it also shows how far we
have to go as well.

 

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