So, what now?

In case you don't have access to any kind of news sources all over the world (in which case reading this would be basically impossible), you may not have heard that Osama bin Laden was killed yesterday.

Also, you may not know this, but, in about 25 minutes, I will have been awake for 24 hours. I apologize if there are any glaring grammatical errors, but Starbucks' Pike can only last me for so long.

The title of this post isn't so much as a question posed to the White House, the Pentagon or any other iconic building in Washington, D.C.

What I want to know is this: What's next? Now that President Obama has officially confirmed the death of the most wanted man on the face of the planet (one whose head was worth $25 million at that), where do we go from here?

Will Al Qaida be disbanded? Will their activities increase? Will straight secular violence completely overtake the idea of a religious war? Will Osama bin Laden become a martyr? What of 9/11? Is it somehow redeemed?

I'm curious to know what others think because, currently, I honestly cannot sum up the consciousness to form any sort of hypothesis without the aid of caffeine.

-Gin