The US is killing innocent Afghani civilians because of bin Laden's actions.
That is as evil as bin Laden orchestrating the death of 5,000 Americans because of certain US politicians' actions.
If bin Laden had been turned over to American authorities, there would be no bombings in Afghanistan, thus no dead Afghans.
Once again, the US is killing innocent Afghani civilians because their leaders refused to turn over bin Laden.
Likewise, bin Laden killed innocent US civilians because their leaders refused to withdraw from the Middle East.
An Afghani peasant has no more control over whether or not bin Laden gets turned over than a janitor at the WTC had any control over US foreign policy.
(Indeed, the Afghani peasant probably has far far less influence over the actions of his leaders than the victims in the WTC.)
Both actions are evil. And by the way... The Taliban offered to extradite bin Laden to Saudi in February of this year. Saudi refused to take him. They also asked the US and UN to send in monitors to observe bin Ladin this June. The US ignored the request. On October 4, the Taliban offered to try bin Ladin themselves if the US would give them some evidence. No deal. On October 14 the Taliban once again offered to extradite him to any other country besides the US or Britain. Once again, no deal. Would the Taliban have actually followed through with their promise? Who knows. Probably not. But, if it could have saved one innocent life, it would have been worth it to agree to their proposed extradition and see what happened.
No, it isn't. The US is seeking to avoid injuring civilians while OBL and the Taliban deliberately set out to kill them all. Do you think that if they could have killed 70,000 Americans on 9/11 they wouldn't have done so. Cut the moral equivalency crap. There is a huge difference between the two actions.
The Arabs (collectively) have attacked that country in the mid-forties, mid-fifties, mid-sixties, mid-seventies....mid-eighties and now are attacking it from within in well-organized riots.