As a practicing Muslim, this struck close to home since he was honestly a figure a lot of us respected up until he went crazy around the period of his initial arrest in Yemen. I had no idea about the prostitution obviously, and that was actually saddening to hear about, but more than anything else I think that should serve as a lesson about prematurely putting anyone in society on a pedestal, religious figure or otherwise. It's clear he was a troubled man even before the issues he's more famous for actually began, which seems to be a common theme for people who are made heroes and are constantly in the public eye. It must take an enormous toll on a person's psyche to balance the pressures of maintaining a popular public personality with the everyday struggles of just being human.

I have to agree with the point that assassinating him so publicly was a poorly thought out decision, and displays a lack of understanding of the real underlying motivations for the kind of people that support him. I think something as simple as just dealing with it quietly and making it seem like the Yemeni government or even some local militant group were the ones responsible would have gotten rid of him while also delegitimizing him to a larger extent. I do think that not publicizing the prostitution was actually quite smart though, since I doubt anyone that still supported him would see it as anything other than an American conspiracy, possibly making him even more of a hero.

Regardless, the need for the flashy and quick victory that's easy to flaunt to the American public seems to have genuinely compromised the objective America had for killing him in the first place. I really hope a lesson was learned from this.