Was the Hit on Bin Laden Illegal?

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

If Raul Castro had sent some super commanderos to America on donkey powered stealth rafts and carried out an exrta judicial killing of Carriles for his role in blowing up planes and bombing hotels would it be called legal?

This.

Just killing people without sentencing them first is always wrong IMO. This was just an assassination. They should have brought him to court, and then sentence him to death. But killing people without bringing them to justice? No. If we allow that to happen, where will it end? The next time, it's the US assassinating Raul Castro. The time after that its a US maffia boss. The time after that it's an opposition leader. Next the government assassinates anyone they don't like and you end up with a police state.

A state that doesn't obey its own laws is a state without laws.