ordnance11 Wrote:No! and Oh Hell NO! Capture him and bring him back? And have every jihadi trying every type of terror operation to try and get him back? It'll be more trouble than it's worth! The problem with Al Quueda is that you got all these splinter cells running under one umbrella, not Terror Inc. Dammed hard to track. we probably vacuumed him hideout for everything of importance anyway.Indeed, that's a f***fest that we can do without. US Government made the right call in making this quick and clean. Not only does it do right by Islam, it makes it hard for bin Laden's followers to make anything out of it.
For certain he's going to be eulogized as a martyr and that's going to motivate some of the more rash cells to attack - hopefully with ill-thought out plots. This will be good in a ways. The stupid ones we can catch easily enough. We have in the past and will in the future, so long as the TSA aren't making themselves out as morons again. And it is my hopes that they'll represent the majority. (IIRC, some of them aren't even literate, or is that a bad rumor?)
Honestly, I'm more worried about the really smart ones. These will be the ones that realize that the days of Al Qaeda are numbered and that they should simply disappear. Of course, we all know that simply will not do for these people, so they will do the next best thing: they'll start invading the politics.
They've already begun to do so in Pakistan, although it was with the primary intent of skewing the game in their favor (cells tipped off to raids, supplies vanishing and appearing in their hands, etc). Instead, they'll seek unstable political environments where they can establish yet another Taliban. And this time they will do it right by supporting Islamic terrorist groups in the strictest of secret. Going after Al Qaeda, after all, was pretty much the main reason we went to Afghanistan and cleaned house there - and only because the Taliban was openly aiding and abetting them. This mistake will not be repeated.