Cosmic Irony

I understand the argument that some people are making to not gloat too much over the death of a fellow human being, but at the same time I think these people know that it is a good thing that someone like Osama Bin Laden is dead.
It’s been said on some online forums that dancing in the streets is as bad as the people in the Middle East that celebrated the deaths of the people on 9/11/01, but I personally think there is a huge difference between the death of innocents and the death of a madman.
Did anyone call for compassion when Hitler killed himself in his bunker underneath Berlin? Were there people trying to be the “voice of reason” and demanding we stop the ticker-tape parades and parties at the end of WWII? No, not at all. We were all united in that one common good that had come from the end of a person’s reign of terror. How that person’s reign ended was his own choice in both cases. Neither Hitler nor Bin Laden decided that their own life was worth preserving enough to turn themselves in or surrender peacefully. If they had, we’d be in the streets shouting for the joy at his capture, not his death. The way he went out was entirely up to him, and from early reports, it was a cowardly way to go.
The fact is, those that are celebrating aren’t just “happy that a fellow human being is dead,” we are celebrating the end of an era, really; one full of bloodshed, oppression and terror. Who, really, can blame us?