Osama bin Ladin Killed by U.S. Forces—Does it Make Us Safer?

President Obama confirmed late Sunday night that Osama Bin Laden was killed in a ground attack in Pakistan by U.S. forces.

In a televised announcement, the president said the leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was killed earlier Sunday. Bin Laden was killed in a firefight orchestrated by American forces.

Obama called the offensive "the most significant effort to date in our attacks against al-Qaeda" and said "justice has been done."

Obviously the legacy of 9/11 still remains, despite the fact that its chief instigator may be gone. It's difficult for most of us to remember a time when the disconcerting murmur of "threat-levels" weren't a daily fact of life. For anyone primary-school aged or younger, it's impossible.

For those who lost someone on that , whatever comfort bin Ladin's death may provide "justice" is most likely fleeting - far too little, far too late.

For the rest of us: We are still at war, we still have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and, since the day we lost our global innocence, we still live with the reality of a daily terrorist threat.

There's greater realities to the matter. Does bin Ladin's death make us safer, or does it simply provide a martyr for a new generation of extremists to latch onto. Does this latest raid prove a hack to Al Qaeda's infrastructure, or does our fumbling over the years—after all, bin Ladin was in a palace, not a hole — just prove how far our global intelligence has yet to come.

There will be more details to come for sure regarding the bust, the aftermath, they'll certainly be heros to laud. But —the most important factor — does this make you feel safer?