Victory in Killing Osama Bin Laden?

I have mixed feelings about the death of Osama Bin Laden.  A wise man once said that "Killing is a religion unto itself."  I understand the political and worldly symbolic importance of the death of this terrorist, but killing is just not something that I will ever be comfortable with, I guess?  And I know that on some level, killing Bin Laden only fuels the remaining terrorists even more maybe?  Another will most certainly rise to take his place and Bin Laden will live on a hero and "martyr" among his supporters.  So aside from removing the head of the hydra ... knowing full well that yet another will arise ... what have we truly gained?  I'm still thinking on this and so I have been silent on my comments thus far.

A friend of mine remarked "Killing Osama Bin Laden is a moral victory!" ... which seems an oxymoron to me?

There is a movie, "The Kingdom of Heaven." This movie is set during the time of the Crusades, when Christians and Muslims struggled for control of the "Holy Land."  Perhaps the most memorable quote of this entire movie is given by the Baron of Ibile just before his death.  The Baron has just made his illegitimate son, Balian, the new Baron of Ibile and in his parting words to his son he says, "At the end of the Crusade lies a world where Muslim and Christian can live side by side in peace."  

And indeed there have at times, in our history, been periods of peace between the Christian and Islamic religious factions.  We have even seen a tenuous peace between Jewish and Islamic states for brief periods of time. Perhaps the players, the methods of warefare, the stakes and the rules of engagement have changed in more modern times ... But  perhaps, a time of lasting peace and understanding will yet come upon us again?  The latter --PEACE-- will be what I will be dilligently praying for in my ongoing thoughts and daily prayers, I think.