NP - What If Bin Laden Had Turned Himself In?

[David Morris]

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/05/what-if-bin-laden-had-turned-himself-in/

"After all, suppose that six months ago he’d just walked into a
Pakistani police station and surrendered. What happens then? A trial
in Pakistan? Deportation to the United States? A new round of debates
about military commissions, except this time at a much higher level of
public attention? The whole thing would have been a political
nightmare for an Obama administration that doesn’t engage in
Bush-style gleeful shredding of the rule of law but often seems
disinclined to live up to its rhetoric on this score. A raid and a
firefight are exactly what the government wanted."