[LINK] bin Laden is dead

[Darrell Burkey]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 02:26, Karl Auer wrote:
> Plenty of people *say* a lot of things. We don't stick them in jail just
> for that. Civilised countries (a group that does not include the US) do
> not kill them either. And before we stick them in jail, we make sure
> that they actually did do the things they are accused of doing - even if
> they accuse themselves.

You imply strongly that the US was not willing to do this and simply
went in and murdered him. Kim has made that statement quite openly. That
is the issue I am having with your postings. 

You go on and on about due process etc but you simply are not willing to
apply that to those who the made decisions in this situation regardless
of having very limited information. It's the US Gov so it must be wrong
and evil. 

I never thought I'd consider someone of your calibre a hypocrite but
that's certainly how it's coming across to me. Hopefully that's a
shortcoming on my part as I have the utmost respect for you. I haven't
met Kim but suspect we wouldn't get along.

I really enjoyed reading your posting and got a lot of them. Thanks for
taking the time. 

> People die every day. The number killed by terrorists - the number that
> *could* be killed by terrorists! - is insignificant compared with those
> killed by poverty, by disease, or even just by the motor car.
> 
> 9/11 was barely a blip in the body count. Fifty thousand people die each
> year on US roads - very roughly a thousand a week. Globally, it's about
> 1.3 million *per year*. Where is your righteous anger about that? Does
> the thought of all those tearful phone calls from emergency rooms all
> over the world also incapacitate your ability to reason?

Total dribble that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I'm
surprised again you would stoop to such silly debating and logic. You
know better.

> I certainly never advocated "allowing self-confessed murderers [...] to
> hide".

Really? Because that's exactly what your approach accomplishes and I'm
simply amazed that you aren't willing to take responsibility for that.
You just can't apply values to a sociopath no matter how much we would
like to.

I'll end my contribution here by stating that there is no doubt in my
mind whatsoever that those now criticising the decisions and actions of
the US would be amongst the first to not only blame them for not acting
sooner if they had to pay a similar price to the victims of this person
but would indeed have no hesitation to ask the very people they are
criticising  for assistance. Let's all hope that belief is never tested.

Cheers.

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Darrell Burkey
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College of Asia & the Pacific
Australian National University
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