[lanceusa]

Listen, Obama is just the messenger, fine. But please, know your history. America is no innocent player in this affair (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver).

Thirst for death only perpetuates further violence and hatred which will lead to more grieving families. I never implied to let the guy go but we should be maintaining the moral higher ground here.

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” -Gandi

Please, allow me to express the following opinion without reprise and then I am finished: He should have been taken alive at all costs. I think my kids would have been safer if we had.

[mekoka]

> He should have been taken alive at all costs. I think my kids would have been safer if we had.

So, the choices for you were take him alive or just let him go?

Frankly, I don't know if you realize how that sound. You completely dismiss the fact that some people actually risked their lives to do this. This is not the scenario of a bad war movie we just sat back in our living room to watch and are now reviewing on imdb. This is reality, actual soldiers, with real guns and live ammunitions, no director, no camera.

What if you were the guy facing an armed Bin Laden, would it be so easy to reflect the way you do at the moment?

[lawnchair_larry]

> So, the choices for you were take him alive or just let him go?

Did you see that fortress? Where exactly was he going to go?

It was an old crippled man within some 18 feet high cement walls, surrounded by 40 Navy SEALs. It would have been impossible to NOT apprehend him, unless he had a cyanide pill.