Osama Bin Laden is Dead!!!

[DanaC]

Me and J were talking about this today. Both of us reached the same conclusion: dancing in the streets and jubiliation seems off-colour, but both of us are of the opinion that if anybody deserved to die it was Osama Bin Laden. And for Americans in particular, this represented far more than the death of a man, it was the closure needed for a nation who'd been hit in a way they'd never been hit before.

I like that the decision was made to go for a ground assault rather than a missile. That was a clever move. Quite aside from the possibility that they might have been able to take the bastard alive, the death toll was incredibly low for such a high-stakes hit.

How different things might have looked if they'd gone for a missile strike and killed a dozen civilians in the process.

Hell of a brave decision though. One of those missions that could either go well and bring the praises of the whole world...or go badly and bring the relationship between the US and Pakistan to the brink.

I have to admit, much as I like Obama, this was way more decisive than I would have imagined him being.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by DanaC

How different things might have looked if they'd gone for a missile strike and killed a dozen civilians in the process.

Yeah, it would have looked like just another week in Pakistan.