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sakeneko · May 4, 2011, 07:56 PM

Hair stand on end? The risks that the special forces routinely take would cause me to loose all my hair. <wry grin>

I'm *WAAAAYYY* out of my depth on this one. Given Bin Laden's expressed intention to die fighting, his promotion of suicide (really, homicide) bombers, and his apparent disregard for innocent life, though, I don't think that it was possible not to take horrendous risks when trying to take him out -- at least, not if we were to behave like decent human beings and not just another group of sociopathic killers on a different side. Dropping a JDAM on that compound would have constituted reckless disregard for innocent neighbors. Any other approach meant sending our people in, which meant taking significant risks.

I'll leave a detailed discussion of exactly what those risks were to people with combat experience.

May 4, 2011, 07:56 PM	#11
sakeneko Senior Member Join Date: May 23, 2009 Location: Nevada Posts: 644	Hair stand on end? The risks that the special forces routinely take would cause me to loose all my hair. <wry grin> I'm WAAAAYYY out of my depth on this one. Given Bin Laden's expressed intention to die fighting, his promotion of suicide (really, homicide) bombers, and his apparent disregard for innocent life, though, I don't think that it was possible not to take horrendous risks when trying to take him out -- at least, not if we were to behave like decent human beings and not just another group of sociopathic killers on a different side. Dropping a JDAM on that compound would have constituted reckless disregard for innocent neighbors. Any other approach meant sending our people in, which meant taking significant risks. I'll leave a detailed discussion of exactly what those risks were to people with combat experience.