I was having some fun also.
I do seriously wonder how much good versus bad killing this man does. He's not a head of state, but does it not rile up his base more by sending a rocket into his chair? What happened to the good old days of exiling Arafat, and then exiling him from his exile and etc. etc.?
To that end, I wonder how much good right out and publicly killing Osama would do. It is probably not a well kept-secret many Arabs idolize him. I do see the plus side of making it scary to be a leader of a terrorist organization, believing this will stop the organiztion is just a pipe dream though. (And I think everyone knows this is a dangerous occupation in the first place).
If anyone was watching the 9-11 trials yesterday, deputy secretary Wolfowitz brought up a good point about not ignoring dangerous rhetoric (in the context of Al-Qaeda and pre-Iraq War Saddam rhetoric), referencing Hitler's rhetoric preceding him actually becoming a danger. I don't know how you defend the exitence of groups like Hamas when their rhetoric clearly speaks for themselves. I'd like to see a group operating in the U.S. with public rhetoric akin to "destroy everyone in Washington D.C." and see how long we tolerate them existing.
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