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Originally Posted by Dirty
No need for a trial. Just a waste of more money and time for something that will inevitably result in his death sentence. Go for the kill and get it over with.
You are saying that our morals and standards are on par with Osama Bin Laden, which I disagree with. He organized a massive terror attack that killed thousands of innocent Americans. I'm not willing to put the US's morals on that level because we killed our biggest terror threat and the man who organized the killing of thousands.
You may value every human life as precious and equal, but I don't. Luckily the government doesn't either and we were able to assassinate OBL.
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I believe he had to die, but I believe there is a more right way of doing it. One can and has in this thread and in other places argue that America killed hundreds of thousands of iraqis in the process of taking out Saddham Hussein, does that put America on par with Al-Qaeda? Just because it's easier to do it one way doesn't necessarily make it right.
Tuna, I think if it were in any way possible for a drone to be sent to blow the **** out of the compound, it would definitely have been considered. Fact is that it was within the airspace of the pakistani capitol, which apparently "made a drone attack impossible", which shows that it was at least considered. I'm amazed that the pakistani government haven't been more vocal about the fact that they were told literally nothing about the attack. I understand the need for secrecy, but what those SEALs did was essentially invade another country, assault a house within a few miles of a pakistani military base, execute a kill order and then move out again with the body.