NP - What If Bin Laden Had Turned Himself In?

[Henry M]

A better question is "What if bin Laden had simply died?"  I, for one, am
more glad of his death than I am that we killed him.

AsB4,
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Henry Mu
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:14 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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."
>
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