Oh what to do, what to do? Thus laments Dr. Wittes on the question of how we are to deal with Osama bin Laden, were he to fall into our hands. How about this: kill him?
We were certain enough of al Qaeda's responsibility to invade a country and drop bombs on it etc., in order to retaliate for 9/11. Opponents of the Iraq war and of American foreign policy in general are at pains to draw attention to their agreement with this policy. There seems to be pretty general agreement that bin Laden is the head of al Qaeda. How can we say al Qaeda's actions are sufficiently evil and sufficiently well-know to justify such levels of violence and killing of innocents and insufficient to warrant the one man we can all agree is guilty? Churchill had it right. This is trial by combat. Make a little list. Kill him and get it over with.
We were certain enough of al Qaeda's responsibility to invade a country and drop bombs on it etc., in order to retaliate for 9/11. Opponents of the Iraq war and of American foreign policy in general are at pains to draw attention to their agreement with this policy. There seems to be pretty general agreement that bin Laden is the head of al Qaeda. How can we say al Qaeda's actions are sufficiently evil and sufficiently well-know to justify such levels of violence and killing of innocents and insufficient to warrant the one man we can all agree is guilty? Churchill had it right. This is trial by combat. Make a little list. Kill him and get it over with.
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