On the Bin Laden News

[gategirlnihon]

So, like Shumashi, I was also thinking about the whole assassination thing today. That's because last night I spent most of the evening in a state of anxiousness and nervousness that it actually had shut me down. Kris would start talking to me and it just wouldn't even register

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[rfrancis]

As you point out, ObL was an enemy combatant (by his own declaration of war, mind you!) so... yeah. Soldiers shoot enemy combatants. Pretty much by definition. Because, as you say, that's how defense works.

Frankly, I'm pretty much a peacenik and I wish there had been a way to guarantee his impotence without shooting him in the head, but I wouldn't have further endangered a single soldier's life to accomplish that (which it surely would require, if it were even possible), so this is what we have. I'm not losing a lot of sleep over it.

I'm a little cheesed at all the lecturing on the social nets today, as you mentioned early in your post. Dunno what to do about it, though (other than me snide about it, and I've already done that!)

[gategirlnihon]

ROFL. Well, I was already snide about it earlier today, and I pretty much had said my piece. I was just trying to get all of my many many thoughts out on the subject.

But, yeah, I wasn't losing sleep about it, either, and the lecturing has actually angered me. So, that's why I chose to get it out this way.

And yeah, part of me wishes he had been captured, just so that there wasn't blood spilt, but like I said, no trial would have ever been fair.