
Originally Posted by
Dera
CAVEAT: My comments below relate ONLY to the story that was fed to US people (and world?)
From Day One the announcement that our Seals invaded Bin Laden's compound and shot him dead I have been troubled by the whole thing.
Yup, Bin Laden was a really bad dude, a rotten miserable horrible cretin, who deserved to die.
However, to break into a man's home (when he had no weapon at hand himself, and shoot him dead), just wasn't the "American way" of my country I thought. The whole thing has always left a really bad taste in my mouth. Why didn't they, when he was totally over-powered, just take him prisoner and whisk him off in their remaining helicopter?
I have no respect nor love for the monster cruel leader, but our (USA) method of doing him in seems like "vigilante justice" to me. The USA has a lurid past, but (naive as I may be) I had hoped that this kind of stuff belongs in the historical past.
Yeah, I was disappointed with Pres. Obama and our military on that day. I guess the politicos will go on and on trying to make political points out of this misadventure. The Seals are absolutely fabulous heroes, but were warriors misguided by limp-wristed leadership hoping for some kind of stupid glory. Our Seals follow orders, regardless, and of course they are to be commended.
but but but they drone people every day, who don't even know the bullet/rocket is coming... that WE don't even know who they are. I mean I agree with you, but they just recently killed an American citizen with a drone - with no court, no due process, no accountability. Doesn't that bother you far more?
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