What is left out of the argument is that, in the case of both Yamamoto and Heydrich, there was no practical way to capture them alive. That was not the case with bin Laden. And I personally believe that capturing bin Laden would have been more of a psychological blow to Al Qaeda than killing him and making him into a martyr has proved to be.

How many people really believe that bin Laden had a stash of pornography in his bedroom? I think it's a pretty sloppy effort to try to discredit him posthumously, and I doubt I'm the only one.

Onward and upward,
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