Odd timing aside

Can we end the wars now and bring all combat troops home?  That might save a couple trillion. 
Can we get rid of the TSA pat-downs? 
Can gas prices go back down again, maybe to $3 a gallon?  [Not with Goldman Sachs speculators roaming the streets.  Guessing the answers are still 'no']. 

Weird imagery, too, via CNN's split-screen, with serious Obama on the right and Americans cheering bin Laden's death on the left... something unsettling here, not quite able to articulate.  Closure for some, but craziness for others.