But, was it the right decision? Killing the ring leader of 9-11 accomplished what? Did it bring back any of the 3,000 killed?
Of course we want to see justice, but was his killing justice? What were the other options for achieving justice? Bragging about killing one "bad" person does not seem to motivate. How effective was Bin Laden while he was on the run and in hiding? Did we need immediate action?
Yes killing bin Laden was justice, but the wannabe warrior/community organizer did not kill him, some real warrior did.
Osama bin Laden was an angry street/cave preacher. Abdul Omar did plenty of the real killing of our troops in Afghanistan, and he’s still out there. We needed someone to embody the enemy. bin Laden, as a sick, old, perverted man, was our chosen candidate.
bin Laden was pretty much left for dead by his own guys. I remember feeling angry when 9/11 first happened, but later on I came to realizations of facts like the fact that bin Laden was pretty much expendable as a drug lord, and believe me, like a drug lord, he will be replaced with a new face of terror soon enough.
“Bragging about killing one “bad” person does not seem to motivate. How effective was Bin Laden while he was on the run and in hiding? Did we need immediate action?”
Pretty much disposed of by al qaeda years before he was finally killed. You wonder sometimes why Omar, the CIC of the Taliban who actually is considered a military commander, is still out there. Or the fact that bin Laden was a guy on life support. Yeah, it sounds like such a novel achievement finding him. I doubt any of the nutcases who tried suicide bombings recently had any need whatsoever of a direct order from bin Laden, or anything remotely close to a military commander, to do the job themselves. We’ve got something that is pretty much not magically solveable in a wave of copycat radicals, all nutcases who simply sympathize with a cause.