Does anyone honestly believe we ever had any intention of capturing him? Bottom line is this was a political assassination and a violation of human rights. I guess it can be argued that it was worth it in this one instance, but, as much as I hate to grant lunatic, death machines like Bin Laden their rights, if we start drawing lines in the sand some Christianist, Tea Party zealot is going to take things a step further.
Besides stirring up a hornets' nest in Pakistan and enraging tons of Muslims, stunts like this and waterboarding suspects also break down the Geneva Convention and endanger our troops when they fall into enemy hands.
Furthermore, assassinating this SOB doesn't change shit. We're still fighting a faceless, international enemy, and, just as we trained, funded, and created Bin Laden and Hussein, we're still supporting murdering dictatorships in Ethiopia, Honduras, and god-knows-where else.
you know... like the aliens they are hiding? Or that they destroyed the World Trade Center themselves? Or that Elvis is alive and playing poker with Jimmy Hoffa?.. or that the moon landings were faked?
Don't lump differing opinions in with a bunch of unrelated topics and absurdity. There's probably a logical fallacy about that somewhere.
But where did I say what my beliefs are?
Prefacing quotes with "said it best" will lead reasonable people to summarize your opinion.
