-——why risk the lives of the men when all they had to do was bomb the house to smithereens then fly home?-——
There was more there than Usama. There was a trove of intelligence that led to the eradication of lower level operatives.
So we've been told.....
That might (and should/would have) been the case if our gloryhound, POS, Pretender in Least, had not gone public about the raid within hours after it went down, simply to score some political points
Like the bad guys did not realize that they should head for cover when they got the news that their leader had been taken out or their planned ops had not been compromised?
And by dropping a JDAM on the compound you get no confirmation you actually hit the guy. . .and then there is the issue killing all the other people in the compound.