It’s a disorienting mixture, at once weird and also completely understandable, this emotional outpouring and very public celebration of the American military’s coordinated strike take-down of Osama bin Laden, who has been the United States’ boogeyman for almost the last full decade. There will be much dissection in the coming days and weeks about the impact of this news on American markets and missions moving forward, but don’t the events of the last 24 hours, and revelations that this raid had been in the planning stages for many months, at the very least lend extra credence to President Obama‘s statements that both he and the country have better things to do than continuously re-till the earth of stupid, trumped-up (ahem) xenophobic charges and pointless culture wars? In hot times with so much political rhetoric targeted for gain at those with short attention spans, there’s a tangible, counterbalancing value to the zen cool of someone like Obama, who sets a goal and then, you know, actually works to achieve it.