Should Bin Laden have been taken alive?

[Gandalf]

I think in the morden world the law does not always seem to equel justice.

Bin Laden deserved to die in a horrible way and thats what he got IMO.It was justice

Also what benifit would it serve to keep him alive.All it would do is fan more extreamists when he would spout his hatred at his trail.

The SEAL team were give the nod and wink the same way the British SAS were when dealing with the IRA.Bring him in dead.

Job well done!

Miles has a point though about Assange. Had the US dropped a killing squad into the mansion he was staying in and slaughtered a bunch of people there would have been an outcry.

Had the Pakistani's launched an attack on some enemy of their state on American soil they would now be facing two weeks of carpet bombing.

Also it makes the British look stupid. America send in their navy seals and kick ass, we sent our SAS into LIbya to help the rebels and they captured us and sent us packing tail between legs.

It's a very important point really.

It seems to me that the fact that the US went to a sovereign nation without them knowing and murdered people seems to be getting lost amongst all the euphoria and chants of "USA, USA". It seems to me that America has no respect for international law and also had no desire to bring a man to justice. Shooting an unarmed man in the head just isn't justice. It is barbaric and shows America to be no better than Bin Laden and his so called terrorists, but I guess we knew that all along. It is hardly a new topic for me.

I also call into question the humanity of people who say that it was better off this way. So we should basically start murdering people without trial and we are comfortable with this? I certainly am not. I find the idea that this should be acceptable quite repugnant. Evidence should be laid out and a case made. I am opposed to the death penalty, but if there is enough evidence then the death can come at that juncture.

I view this as yet another sorry episode in America's recent political/military history. A shame really because it should have been something that showed them as something much better.