I am really disturbed by the US government over this whole Bin Laden thing.
To go on the TV whooping for joy and talking about justice is a bit much if you ask me. Justice indicates a process, a trial, evidence, a jury, a verdict then a sentence. What happened in Pakistan the other night was an assassination, no more, no less. If they wanted too they could have took him alive and made him answer to his crimes. Yes he was a hateful man who committed terrible crimes but to just wipe him out like that seem to me to fly in the face of the human rights and democracy that the USA stands for. It brings them down to the level of the terrorists that they oppose. By murdering a murderer without recourse to a legal procedure are you not as bad?
After WWII there was a set of trials for war criminals accused of Genocide of attemoting to wipe out the Jewish people. That was driven by the USA at the time, perhaps Mr Obama could look to the pages of history rather than to his next election campaign before he acts next time. Whatever happened Bin Laden would be a focal point for his followers, the US government has now made him a martyr.
Power has responsibilty and those with the most power have the most responsibility.
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