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He may be the most hated man in America History but I think the moral thing to do would have been to capture him and bring him to trial, but that apparently did
by Synaesthesia 11y ago
He may be the most hated man in America History but I think the moral thing to do would have been to capture him and bring him to trial, but that apparently didn't enter into consideration.
- bhayden 11y agoThey don't even give trials for American citizens abroad. Seems unlikely they'd do it for terrorist #1.
- jMyles 11y agoThey're trying KSH - why not?
- ghurtado 11y agoI'm assuming you mean KSM (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed). I think it could be strategically valuable to be able to parade pictures of your former enemy looking like this: http://usofarn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Khalid-Sheikh-Mohammed+.jpg http://usofarn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Khalid-Sheikh-... . It would have been awesome if we could have done the same with Bin Laden.
- jMyles 11y agoI don't know how my fingers wrote "H" for Mohammed, but yes, of course. :-) I'm not sure I agree that it's strategically valuable - in an asymmetrical engagement, it seems like this just provokes sympathy and stokes recruitment. Treating him (both of them, in fact) with dignity, respect, and an honest public trial including an accounting of their crimes might help, though.
- mcantelon 11y agoBringing Osama to trial might have been embarassing. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/afghanistan.terrorism http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/01/afghanistan.ter... And then there's the possibility that Osama was long dead before the raid (which former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto stated a month before she was killed).
- dingaling 11y agoI wondered if it was originally a capture-and-return mission but had to revert to locate-and-kill once the helicopter was lost. With less airlift, and presumably an emphasis on extracting documents and computers, there may not have been capacity to bring captives.