American Patriotism Needs An Outlet

So was Osama bin Laden armed or not when they shot him? Who cares, what were they going to do? He was wanted dead or alive. But really only dead as the Americans wouldn’t want to take him to a trial and go through the whole process like they did with Saddam Hussein. To much bother. Bullet in the head, job done. They go home and Bin Laden is on his 9th virgin by the end of the day.
Then the news breaks and the whole western world celebrate. We all go out on the streets cheering and waving flags. No wait, that’s only in America. Maybe they saw the Royal wedding a couple of days before and were desperate to have some of that crowd gathering flag waving patriotism that was going on.
I saw a picture of one bloke dressed up as Captain America. It was all a bit strange. When arrests were made over associations to the London 7/7 bombings there weren’t British people going out to celebrate. Its just not necessary.
Maybe its because Americans are a patriotic bunch but don’t have an outlet for it. Their main sports don’t have national teams that play in tournaments. There’s no baseball, American football or basketball world cup. Maybe if Americans cared more about football and were better at it then they would stop dressing up as Captain America at every opportunity.
Or maybe they would be worse.