Osama Bin Laden is dead.

My wife just announced that Bin Laden is dead.  I'm trying to identily the emotion I feel.  But distracted from that, I'm caught up thinking of my children's reaction.  My 10 year old shouts "Hurray!" and my 4 year old says "oh, that's not good."  Of course I understand where they are at.  My oldest is still young enough to see the enemy and be glad he's dead.  The world is good and bad to him and Osama was definitely bad, so we should be happy.  My younger son doesn't even recognize the name.  He shows a Christ-like love for all people (inadvertantly, I'll admit), but I admire that.

So I'm stuck, do I celebrate the death of a bad man that was clearly an enemy?  Or do I feel sorry for a man that just entered some form of existence that is worse than I care to imagine?  I said nothing as I tried to decide what would be the best thing to say.  Do I teach the younger child about enemies, or teach the older one that we're supposed to love our enemies? 

Upon reflection I think the best description is contentment.  Osama Bin Laden is seeing justice today.  I don't want to rejoice in his death, it's sad that a successful, charismatic man chose to cause so much harm and sorrow in the world.  But I'm just not one to dance on a coffin.