Bin Laden is dead, official

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Factor

It was considered.....

I was making a serious point. We could win the war tomorrow if we wanted and turn the whole Islamic world in to burned sand. But we don't because that is not the American way.

What happened to doing things not because they are easy but because they are hard.

Yes hauling OBL to NY City and putting him on trial would be controversial, and expensive, and cause countless threats against America. But dammit that is the American Way! If you commit a crime on American soil you will be tried by Americans in an American court. That is so important a concept that we put it in the Constitution (see Amendment 5).

I hate terrorists, I hate their methods. Anyone who would commit a crime against innocents for a political end is the lowest form of scum. But sending black clad troops to kill an unarmed and non-uniformed person in their sleep is no different. We have sets of law to deal with criminals, and to determine who deals with them. I don't believe those were followed here.