No, probably not. It was probably murder. But then I have always wondered at the West's fascination with giving murdering bastards their "rights." This is not a case of someone who is accused of a murder ... this is the case of someone who exults at the murder of thousands of innocent civilians. He planned and masterminded slaughter. To the extent that he proclaims all Americans to be "guilty" and deserving of extermination, we should accept that this is someone, a lunatic, whose goal and ambition is to see this happen. Since I find that to be manifestly unacceptable, in either logic or reason, far better that he should be exterminated than a single American. So be it -- is not putting someone to death murder? State-sanctioned, but still murder.
Is war different? Not really, it is still state-sanctioned -- it may also be necessary to the tort-feasor's survival, but where one human decides to take another's life...? You really can't escape it, if it isn't chance or God ... and the result of some form of intent, it's murder.
So do I give a rat's ass? No, no I don't. You see, when you fall into the trap of being concerned about "murders" such as Bin Laden's, you are purposely skewing the great conflict in your enemy's favor to your own detriment. Bin Laden counts on "weaklings" such as America to take that into account. He does not care an iota about murder -- human shields and civilians dying, that is all part of his role in Allah's big scheme (or so he thinks). But he knows that we care ... infidel Christians ... so let's hide in the Mosque, put the women and children out in front and build some bombs. He knows that we won't kill innocent women and children if we can possibly avoid it. It is a standing jihadist joke and strategy. Goons like Ahmadinejad count on it too, as to tyrants, dictators and thugs around the world.
And it is America's great Achilles heel. We just don't have the guts to do what needs doing. Heck, we can't do it domestically to get our financial house in order -- "oh the poor needy ... [fill in the blank]." No matter that this entitlement or that is recent, you can't take it away, no matter how foolish: we do not have the guts.
Except ... after agonizing for two months about it, and at least 16 hours when knowledge was certain (he still had to sleep on it), Obama pulled the trigger as surely as those Navy Seals. Our President murdered Osama Bin Laden. And that, in my humble opinion, is the finest and most courageous thing this man has EVER done. It may change him ... but probably not. He is already talking about a need to unify ... under his ideas, of course.
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