[LINK] bin Laden is dead

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 17:42 +1000, Darrell Burkey wrote:
> I can't speak for everyone but it might be because no one
> has agreed with your interpretation of events.

For the record, I agree with Kim. I think the US has behaved no better
than the terrorists they claim to be combating. Not just in this
particular instance, but going back to 9/11 and beyond.

> Just because _you_ think it was illegal and wrong does not make it so.
> Get some real facts and then have a sensible discussion.

And those "real facts" are going to come from where? There are no
uncompromised sources. We are left to debate what appears to have
happened.

> You appear to be advocating that it's ok to go over to another country,
> kill a few thousand people and then be totally left alone simply because
> you are hiding in another country somewhere?

Er - are you talking about bin Laden or the US?

> Feel free to educate us all. How would you have handled providing
> justice to the thousands killed by terrorists over the years? You seem
> to think you are much more enlightened than the rest of us here. So put
> up or shut up. Why didn't you let Obama know?

The argument from mutual ignorance is no better than the argument from
personal ignorance: "I see no better way, therefore it is the only way".

There is a BIG difference between justice and vengeance. Bin Laden's
victims have perhaps been avenged, but there is precious little justice
involved.

Sad that the US, in the end, could do no better than that.

K.

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