I agree, the parties that are goin' on right now are terrible. Drinkin' this much in celebration svckS.
What do you mean choose to? The guy killed thousands of people in the Middle East and then he launched the largest terrorist attack on American soil. That sort of thing is not somethin' that is easily forgotten. When you are that evil you get remembered. That's just the way it works.
But he wanted to be heard, more so than any real physical victory. He won before you even put the first soldier into his country. The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about. Proper rational thought might have mitigated some of his success, but at the end of the day you were damned if you do and damned if you don't. Oh well, in the past. Try and forget it, and not repeat mistakes. All you can do.