Such a big week for the US. I heard the news of Bin Laden's death after reading a facebook post by one of my classmates, a friend from Holland. My first impulse was to call my Dad, which I did. Then I got sucked into the news. Strange to watch everything unfold being outside the US. Right now I have no classmates from home. My closest friend is from Honduras, then I have friends and classmates from all over the place: Japan, Germany, the Philippines, Ecuador, Spain, Korea, Panama, of course Taiwan, and many more countries.

I think I went through all of the cycles I bet most American's did. A weird excitement, feeling proud of Obama, relief Osama is finally gone - some validation of our struggles. And disbelief we have such a large special forces team trained to carry out missions like this.

After an hour or so, I started to feel how savage the attack was. Osama was not a law abiding person to say the least, but was it right for us to act similarly? It's reasonable to extinguish something that has caused and continuing to cause so much damage. I feel toward the US much like i feel toward my family. I can judge and criticize, but when others place judgment, I'm a little defensive. People around me have been sensitive. There also hasn't been a person that's come to me to try to celebrate or express relief at what the US achieved in killing Bin Laden. Why would they? I'm not worried to much about that, since I think any other country in the same shoes would have behaved similarly. But how come we can't take total pride in this? It because it wasn't handled in a way that used to be viewed as American.