Bill Angel
Gold Member
There was no reason to take him alive. Or, at least, certainly not to let the world know that we'd taken him alive. The last thing we want is for this administration to try this guy in court. Best thing, send him to Allah... there is no intel value to someone like Osama. But there is intel to be had, and we have that.
Dead was the best option.
I agree. There was no reason for the SEAL team to wait around to see if Al Qaeda reinforcements were going to show up to try to rescue in Laden. Also, for all the SEALS knew, the place was booby-trapped, and all bin Laden had to do was press a button and the entire compound would have been destroyed, together with the SEAL team.
I think that "self defense" was a good enough reason for the SEALS to have acted in the manner that they did, without bringing the politics of kill versus capture into it.