Someone has to start it.

He's dead either way, so putting him on trial would have made it worse for the survivors. What really is the point of a trial in a case such as this?

The benefit of capturing him alive would have been to gather more intelligence, since you could possibly locate and identify other contacts in the organization before they knew their leader was captured.

It's very hard to be sure that a person who was in a building will also die when the building is obliterated, it comes down to stochastics, and stochastics don't know the phrase "one hundred percent".

And then there's Murphy.

Excuse me while I get the paper towels to wipe the coffee off my computer screen.

You mean the same Pakistani military that was harboring Bin Ladin, protecting him, and who aids and supports the Taliban?

This compound was in the middle of where retired Pakistani military officers were living. If you believe that the Pakistani military and government did not know, then I've got some prime water-front property to sell you, cheap....:)

Without question, in my opinion. He risked our relations with Pakistan by not informing them of the attack beforehand. He made a very bold, gutsy, well-calculated decision and he was right. Drone attacks and stealth bombers wouldn't have worked. We even have DNA evidence and pictures, that I suppose we'll see at some point, though gruesome. I like that they buried him at sea, too. Very smart. No shrine for Osama.

The Obama-haters have been silenced and have to give him so credit, at least for a day. This has kind of popped their balloon, so to speak, because they can no longer portray him as a "Community Organizer" or a weak leader. I hope the crow tastes good. Here are some opinions on the capture of Bin Laden by some of the GOP contenders, Donald Trump and even the infamous Rush Limbaugh.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/02/limbaugh-thank-god-for-president-obama/?hpt=T2

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Some of them can't bring themselves to say congratulations to President Obama for taking the risk. It makes me look at them as small people who are only interested in their own objectives. I was impressed that Donald Trump was big enough to congratulate Obama.

This country has waited for this moment for ten long years. Where I live and work in NJ, there are celebrations everywhere because we lost so many people in the terror attacks. Its not going to bring anyone back, but it was a day of rejoicing here. I'm forever grateful to our military and special forces for making this day possible. Also, our intelligence community. What an incredible amount of bravery it took to pull this off.

What can the Obama-haters say now? They should say job well done.

AV

they'll NOT find it. It will vanish from their memory.

Besides, what's Osama ever done to the US, for a while?

Besides, they'll probably drum up a person on the mission who happens to be/vote Republican, and use that to say : "Obama didn't do it, Joe the Spec-Ops Plumber did!" :p

But I haven't had time to do much more than skim the later reports.

Losing a helo with no major injuries is a major accomplishment in itself.

Somebody had to, in less than a minute, set an explosive charge to blow a multi-million dollar stealth attack helicopter to smithereens. Probably in total darkness, with the threat of enemy gunfire.

It's the "software" that can't. I was glad to see that the only casualties were to the enemy.

Too many idjits, not enough bauxite.

Immediately after the President's address, stated that the Pakistanis had both supplied the initial intel and been part of the raid. Obviously that story changed by the next morning.

The ISI has a bad rep, and deservedly so. It is almost impossible to know whether they officially or unofficially support the Taliban. But sometimes that cuts both ways. The info supplied to NATO in Afghan was apparently from the ISI who played both sides.

From, say, about 5,000 feet?

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