Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
I can understand a slight unease from ourselves. There's an element of the Wild West about this chain of events. We don 't have much in common with the Americans and would have preferred Bin Liner to have his day in court. We like to subject such nutjobs to derision, disrespect, sarcasm etc. Yet! I can't think of any practical way to achieve that. Still alive, and in custody, he might present some further security threat to the Spanish, the Russians, the British, the USA, or any other country he has wronged. Maybe this way out, and disposing of his body in a secret location was a better way out.
It was never only Bin Laden that poses the threat though. There are plenty of those in the East who are peed off with the US and only too happy to make a stand. As Che Guevara once said, '"Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this our battle cry may have reached some receptive ear and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons." You have the initiating terrorists who believe they are fighting for a cause, and then you have the fundamentalists that come after them who act on the back of outrage and utter hatred and they are the most dangerous of all. I don't believe the world is a safer place now he's dead.
Marge 
