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Originally Posted by IrishLake
I can't help but wonder what people would be saying if Obama did NOT give the OK for the assassination, and had OBL been responsible for another terrorist attack at some point in the hypothetical future, and then it came out that "well, the Americans could have killed him back in May 2011, but didn't." What a shitstorm that could have been.
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I wonder what people would be saying if the military had gone to kill (I don't think they ever intended to capture, but only they know) Osama; and Osama and his crew were fully prepared and ended up killing all of the military involved as well as staged another terrorist attack to pay the U.S. back for the attempt.
Who knows, right? I guess anything's possible when all we have to go by is the "successful" outcome.
I firmly believe in "I don't condone in, but I understand." That means that I can truly see why a particular outcome is preferred and accepted. I can even personally agree with it at some level. However, personal opinions and anger over Osama aside, I'm less inclined to say we could've killed someone and more inclined to say we could've captured someone. It's fine that people wanted him dead immediately and believe that payback's a bitch. People just need to understand how there are others who question the legality and even morality of it. That doesn't make those people less sensitive to terrorism, less American, or clueless about the victims of 9/11.
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