05-05-2011, 02:01 AM
Dakota wrote:
I am questioning the driving policy for future actions. If an identical situation happened in Yemen, or anywhere, and the host country was not cooperating and the target was juicy enough, do we go in just the way we did and whack the guy? I say yes and have been saying it since 2001. No midnight conversions here.
There has not been a person like OBL in our country's life before, nor a situation like 9/11. It's unprecedented, and so was the response.
"an identical situation?" Not likely.
The military mission that resulted in his death was not an assassination, he was a valid military target, the world's most wanted man, and considered extremely dangerous. The troops apparently were authorized to kill him unless they found him naked. (bad visual, sorry.)
Could Pakistan have fired on our troops had they discovered them? Yes, and that would have been legal. That was part of the immense risk of this mission. I don't expect another like it anytime soon, maybe not in our lifetimes.