Is the world safer with his passing?

The world is now vastly safer from Pulitzer-hungry journalists wanting to interview OBL in Gitmo and ruminate about what a “complex man” he is, so that’s a blessing in itself.
Regarding the burial at sea: it avoids the danger of a gravesite becoming either a pilgrimage site for his admirers or a vandalism/littering target for his detractors.
Predictably, it has already attracted criticism from some Muslim clerics. In Islamic law, burials at sea are not forbidden — hardly surprising given that many Muslim nations have been seafaring over the centuries — but they are discouraged unless absolutely necessary, and it’s not clear that the “absolutely necessary” condition was met in this case.
Of course, there will never be a shortage of carping imams ready to criticize America on some pretext or another.

A trial, followed by almost certain life imprisonment, would, IMHO, have been much better.

One can be “almost certain” of all the following: that radical imams would call the trial a sham; that life imprisonment would lead to accusations of torture a la Gitmo and Abu Ghraib; that whenever OBL eventually died in prison, there would be rumors of foul play; and that when we buried his body, some of the very same Muslims who’d spent years saying that OBL was not a True Muslim at all would then turn around and accuse us of not giving him a proper burial with his head facing towards Mecca, to which Muslims are entitled!
One can be equally certain that although these accusations would originate among radical Muslims, they would eventually be taken up by assorted Western crackpots like Alex Jones and Lynne Stewart and Andrew Sullivan — some on the left and some on the right, but all under the guise of “just asking questions.”
So, Osama bin Laden would end up a Martyr who was
railroaded by a Jew-controlled kangaroo court, and then was viciously tortured and eventually murdered in prison by the hypocritical Islamophobic Americans.

However, it might have been good propaganda for the Obama administration to express – at least for ‘external’ consumption – ‘regret’ that he wasn’t captured alive pending a trial.

It would’ve been disastrous domestically for Obama — a Democrat who never came within a mile of any kind of military service — to publicly second-guess the SEALs and CIA operatives on the ground, and to even hint that they had erred in not taking OBL alive for a trial.

A trial, followed by almost certain life imprisonment, would, IMHO, have been much better.

One can be “almost certain” of all the following: that radical imams would call the trial a sham; that life imprisonment would lead to accusations of torture a la Gitmo and Abu Ghraib; that whenever OBL eventually died in prison, there would be rumors of foul play; and that when we buried his body, some of the very same Muslims who’d spent years saying that OBL was not a True Muslim at all would then turn around and accuse us of not giving him a proper burial with his head facing towards Mecca, to which Muslims are entitled!
One can be equally certain that although these accusations would originate among radical Muslims, they would eventually be taken up by assorted Western crackpots like Alex Jones and Lynne Stewart and Andrew Sullivan — some on the left and some on the right, but all under the guise of “just asking questions.”
So, Osama bin Laden would end up a Martyr who was
railroaded by a Jew-controlled kangaroo court, and then was viciously tortured and eventually murdered in prison by the hypocritical Islamophobic Americans.

However, it might have been good propaganda for the Obama administration to express – at least for ‘external’ consumption – ‘regret’ that he wasn’t captured alive pending a trial.

It would’ve been disastrous domestically for Obama — a Democrat who never came within a mile of any kind of military service — to publicly second-guess the SEALs and CIA operatives on the ground, and to even hint that they had erred in not taking OBL alive for a trial.

Is the world safer with his passing?

The world is now vastly safer from Pulitzer-hungry journalists wanting to interview OBL in Gitmo and ruminate about what a “complex man” he is, so that’s a blessing in itself.
Regarding the burial at sea: it avoids the danger of a gravesite becoming either a pilgrimage site for his admirers or a vandalism/littering target for his detractors.
Predictably, it has already attracted criticism from some Muslim clerics. In Islamic law, burials at sea are not forbidden — hardly surprising given that many Muslim nations have been seafaring over the centuries — but they are discouraged unless absolutely necessary, and it’s not clear that the “absolutely necessary” condition was met in this case.
Of course, there will never be a shortage of carping imams ready to criticize America on some pretext or another.