I think its good for folks like Vegangelica to think every life is precious. I'm not being sarcastic there; its a positive outlook. But the problem is the barbarians always win with that mentality.
The United States, when judged against their peers, is far more humane than most governments. I don't think we just go storming houses, defying national sovereignty, and shooting women and children for just anyone. No ones proud that we did that. No ones waiving flags over collateral damage. But this is a man who sparked global terrorist outbreaks. If this can't be seen as a move that will save countless lives, i don't know what I can do for you.
Lets just take domestic crime for a second. Look how many attention-hungry morons go out and try to be "copy-cat" criminals for just regular old nut jobs without a righteous cause. Bin Laden had religion behind him, there were recruitment videos. People aspired to be martyrs through his organization and, like Western Europe in the Crusades, they really thought this was going to get them in to heaven.
Say what you will about that, but hindsight tends to temper emotion. Should we have gone after Hitler? What about Castro? Mussolini? The world is not a peaceful place, I understand that you feel that way, but wanting it to be more humane won't make it that way. China routinely commits genocide. How far should we go there? Do free tibet stickers do the job?
Its ugly out there. I'm not saying killings the right thing to do. I don't think it is - thats why I think Bin Laden should have been taken out. Killing is a problem, but wanting to continue killing - for seemingly artificial reasons (we're not really the great satan) seems worse. I think Bin Laden is on par with Timothy McVeigh...should we not have executed him as well?
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