Would we be better off if he were captured alive? I’m beginning to wonder. Bin Laden? We had to take their word for it on every aspect of the operation. Being tied to the underwear bomber is another fact that we will just have to believe. We’re better off with him dead but these questions will just not be asked.
Fair questions, and I think we’re better off that he’s not in this country wasting the courts’ resources and gathering a brainwashed following of sympathizers. That’s not a reason to kill him, that’s just a fringe benefit. What we need is to capture his hut where he’s set up. Imagine getting his computer. It sounds like we might already have some good intel, doesn’t it?
It looks like Obama is aware that BJClinton’s refusal, to take Bin Laden, when the Saudis offered him, was too big of a mistake, that he doesn’t want to risk repeating.